Cyclic changes in the shape of a quasi-rigid body on a curved manifold can lead to net translation and/or rotation of the body in the manifold. Presuming space-time is a curved manifold as portrayed by general relativity, translation in space can be accomplished simply by cyclic changes in the shape of a body, without any thrust or external forces.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6706 |
| Date | 01 November 2002 |
| Creators | Wisdom, Jack |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 32 p., 6370543 bytes, 473755 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-2002-017 |
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