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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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4.6. THE GAUSS FORMULAS 99<br />

or<br />

or<br />

@ 2 q<br />

@w 1 @w 2<br />

=<br />

@ ⇥ @q<br />

@w<br />

@u<br />

@q<br />

@v<br />

u w 1w 2<br />

@q<br />

@u +<br />

⇤<br />

=<br />

⇥ @q<br />

@u<br />

v w 1w 2<br />

@q<br />

@v + L w 1w 2<br />

N<br />

2<br />

@q<br />

@v<br />

N ⇤ 4<br />

3<br />

u u<br />

wu wv<br />

v v 5<br />

wu wv<br />

L wu L wv<br />

This means that we have introduced notation <strong>for</strong> the first two columns in [D w ] .<br />

The last column is related to the last row and will also be examined in the next<br />

chapter.<br />

As we shall see, and indeed already saw when considering polar coordinates in<br />

the plane, these <strong>for</strong>mulas are important <strong>for</strong> defining accelerations <strong>of</strong> curves. They<br />

are however also important <strong>for</strong> giving a proper definition <strong>of</strong> the Hessian or second<br />

derivative matrix <strong>of</strong> a function on a surface. This will be explored in an exercise<br />

later.<br />

The task <strong>of</strong> calculating the second fundamental <strong>for</strong>m is fairly straight<strong>for</strong>ward,<br />

but will be postponed until the next chapter. Calculating the Christ<strong>of</strong>fel symbols is<br />

more complicated and is delayed until we’ve gotten used to the second fundamental<br />

<strong>for</strong>m.<br />

Exercises.<br />

(1) Show that<br />

@N<br />

@w<br />

is always tangent to the surface.<br />

(2) Show that<br />

@ 2 q<br />

· N =<br />

@q · @N<br />

@w 1 @w 2 @w 2 @w 1<br />

This shows that the derivatives <strong>of</strong> the normal can be computed knowing<br />

the first and second fundamental <strong>for</strong>ms.<br />

(3) Show that [II] vanishes if and only if the normal vector is constant. Show<br />

in turn that this happens if and only if the surface is part <strong>of</strong> a plane.<br />

(4) Show that when q (u, v) is a Cartesian parametrization, i.e.,<br />

apple 1 0<br />

[I] =<br />

0 1<br />

then the Christ<strong>of</strong>fel symbols vanish. Hint: This is not obvious since we<br />

don’t know<br />

@2 q<br />

@w 1@w 2<br />

.

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