The rubber sheet analogy is really just to help you visualize a physical surface for which things like the distance between two points isn t really meaningful.
Limits in rubber sheet geometry.
It provides simple fixed placement of windows where you specify the exact size and location of one window called the slave within another window called the master the placer also provides rubber sheet placement where you specify the size and location of the slave in terms of the dimensions of the master so that the slave changes size.
Topology sometimes referred to as the mathematics of continuity or rubber sheet geometry or the theory of abstract topological spaces is all of these but above all it is a language used by mathematicians in practically all branches of our science.
And maybe visualizing stretched and deformed open discs might help get you used to the idea.
Concept of topology rubber sheet geometry topology does not distinguish between a circle and a square but it does between a circle and a figure eight.
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Why topology is called rubbersheet geometry.
It is sometimes called rubber sheet geometry because the objects can be stretched and contracted like rubber but cannot be broken.
A circle can be stretched into a square with a rubber band but you can t stretch a figure eight into a circle without tearing.
Astm s rubber standards are instrumental in specifying testing and assessing the physical mechanical and chemical properties of a wide variety of materials and products that are made of rubber and its elastomeric derivatives.
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