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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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3.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS 57<br />

shows that<br />

dB<br />

dt<br />

=<br />

✓ dB<br />

dt · N ◆<br />

N<br />

However, we also have<br />

This implies<br />

Finally the equation<br />

0= dB<br />

dt · N + B · dN dt = dB<br />

dt · N + ds<br />

dt ⌧<br />

dN<br />

dt =<br />

dB<br />

dt =<br />

⌧ ds<br />

dt N<br />

appleds dt T + ⌧ ds<br />

dt B<br />

is a direct consequence <strong>of</strong> the other two equations.<br />

The <strong>for</strong>mula <strong>for</strong> the curvature follows from observing that<br />

!<br />

dT<br />

ds · N = a v d |v|<br />

|v| |v| 2 · N<br />

ds<br />

= a<br />

|v| ·<br />

=<br />

a (a · T) T<br />

|a (a · T) T|<br />

a · a (a · T) 2<br />

|v||a (a · T) T|<br />

= |a|2 |v| 2 (a · v) 2<br />

|v| 3 |a (a · T) T|<br />

|a (a · T) T|<br />

=<br />

|v| 2<br />

q<br />

where |v||a (a · T) T| = |a| 2 |v| 2 (a · v) 2 .<br />

The <strong>for</strong>mula <strong>for</strong> the binormal B now follows directly from the calculation<br />

T ⇥ N = 1 ✓ ◆<br />

a (a · T) T<br />

|v| v ⇥ |a (a · T) T|<br />

= 1 ✓<br />

◆<br />

|v| v ⇥ a<br />

|a (a · T) T|<br />

=<br />

v ⇥ a<br />

|v||a (a · T) T|<br />

= v ⇥ a<br />

|v ⇥ a|<br />

In the last equality recall that the denominators are the areas <strong>of</strong> the same parallelogram<br />

spanned by v and a.<br />

To establish the general <strong>for</strong>mula <strong>for</strong> ⌧ we note (with more explanations to<br />

follow)

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