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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 3 36D iv Solution by
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In Minkowski spacetime with metric , takeIts tangent vector is , with metric tensor square . Its acceleration is , nonzero and not proportional to the tangent because its time component is zero. Thus it is a regular null curve which is not a geodesic under any reparametrization.
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