Differential Geometry (Notes)

by
Ms. Kaushef Salamat

Partial Contents
These are handwritten notes. We are very thankful to Ms. Kaushef Salamat for these
notes.

1. Space curve 25. Fundamental theorem for space curves

2. Twisted curve 26. Intrinsic equation of a curve
3. Plane curve 27. Spherical indicatrix of tangent
4. Tangent 28. Curvature and torsion of spherical in-
5. Arc dicatrix

6. Chord 29. Spherical indicatrix of binormal of a

curve
7. Arc length
30. The curvature and torsion of spherical
8. Equation of tangent indicatrix of binormal of a curve
9. Oscillating plane 31. Spherical indicatrix of principal nor-
10. Principal normal mal of a curve

11. Normal plane 32. Skew curvature

12. Curvature 33. Tangent surface

13. Equation of osculating plane 34. Involute
14. Bi-normal vector 35. Equation of involute
15. Equation of Bi-normal 36. Evolute of a curve
16. Torsion 37. Surface
17. Seret Frenet formulas 38. Equation of tangent plane to a surface
18. Equation of tangent in Cartesian for- 39. Normal to a surface
mulas 40. Curvature co-ordinates for a surface
19. Equation of osculating plane in Carte- and parametric curves.
sian form 41. Metric on a surface, first fundamental
20. Rectifying plane form for a surface, first order magni-
tude
21. Circle of curvature
42. Directions on a surface
22. Locus of centre of curvature
43. Normal for a surface
23. Radius of torsion
44. Second order magnitudes
24. The locus of centre of spherical curva-
ture 45. Weingarten equations

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 46. Normal section of a surface at a point 55. Characteristic of surface
47. Meunier’s theorem 56. Envelop
48. Normal curvature and radius of nor- 57. Edge of regression
mal curvature
58. Equation of edge of regression
49. Principal directions and principal cur-
vature 59. Developable surfaces
50. Differential equation for principal di- 60. Geodesics or Geodesics line on a sur-
rections face
51. Euler’s theorem 61. Geodesics curvature vector
52. Surface of revolution 62. Geodesics curvature
53. Normal surface 63. Differential equation for geodesics on
54. One parameter family of surface* a surface

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