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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Analog Avenue: Helix Rotations

Helix Rotations

 

The expression:

 represents a counter clockwise helix (the constant 'i' is the imaginary operator).  Using 'i' as a rotation operator, we see the helix rotate by 90 degrees counter clockwise when e^(i*x) is multiplied by 'i' as:
The two helices are drawn below (click to view):


 

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