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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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3.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS 59<br />

Pro<strong>of</strong>. By assumption<br />

0 0 and apple>0. This <strong>for</strong>ces<br />

d✓<br />

ds = apple<br />

and<br />

This establishes the <strong>for</strong>mulas<br />

dT<br />

d✓ = N<br />

There is a very elegant way <strong>of</strong> collecting the Serret-Frenet <strong>for</strong>mulas.<br />

Corollary 3.1.3. (Darboux) For a space curve as above define the Darboux<br />

vector<br />

D = ⌧T + appleB<br />

then<br />

Pro<strong>of</strong>. We have<br />

d ⇥ ⇤ ds<br />

T N B =<br />

dt<br />

dt D ⇥ ⇥ T N B ⇤<br />

D ⇥ T = appleN<br />

D ⇥ N = ⌧B appleT<br />

D ⇥ B = ⌧N<br />

so the equation follows directly from the Serret-Frenet <strong>for</strong>mulas.<br />

⇤<br />

⇤<br />

Exercises.<br />

(1) Find the curvature, torsion, normal, and binormal <strong>for</strong> the twisted cubic<br />

q (t) = t, t 2 ,t 3<br />

(2) Consider a regular space curve q (t) with non-vanishing curvature and<br />

torsion. Let k be a fixed vector and denote T, N, B the angles<br />

between T, N, B and k. Showthat<br />

and<br />

d N<br />

dt<br />

apple =<br />

sin<br />

cos<br />

T d T<br />

N dt<br />

sin N = apple cos T ⌧ cos B<br />

d B<br />

dt<br />

⌧ = sin B d B<br />

cos N dt<br />

sin B = ⌧ d T<br />

sin<br />

apple dt<br />

T

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