Abstract
For motion of a material point along a space curve, a kinematical decomposition, discovered by Siacci, expresses the acceleration vector as the sum of two special oblique components in the osculating plane to the curve. A new proof of Siacci’s theorem is presented.
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Casey, J. Siacci’s resolution of the acceleration vector for a space curve. Meccanica 46, 471–476 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-010-9296-x
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