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Written by Willy Gerber   
Friday, 12 December 2008 21:48
1 Vectors and Curves
Formula(1) Euclidean n-space
Formula(2) Natural coordinates of the the point p
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(3) With addition and multiplication rules Formula becomes a vector space
Formula(4) Real valued function in Formula of class Formula (all the partial derivatives of the function up to order r exist and are continuous)
Formula(5) Tangent vector in Formula
Formula(6) Collection of all tangent vectors or tangent space at Formula
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(7) Formula has the structure of a vector space
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(8) Tangent bundle (not a vector space)
Formula(9) Vector field is a smooth function
Formula(10) Smooth function
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(11) Definition of a new vector field
Formula(12) Directional derivative of Formula at the point Formula, in the direction of Formula
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(13) Linear derivation on the space of smooth functions
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(14) Formula operates on Formula
Formula(15) Differential operator
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(16) Curve
Formula(17) Coordinate
Formula(18) Velocity vector
Formula(19) Speed
Formula(20) Infinitesimal tangent vector
Formula(21) Differential of arclength
Formula(22) Formula applied to a function
Formula(23) Push-forward
Formula(24) Components of the the tangent vector
Formula(25) Smooth, real valued function
Formula(26) Reparametrization of Formula
Formula(27) Speed
Formula(28) Arc length
Formula(29) Any curve parametrized has unit speed
Formula(30) Any vector divided by its length is a unit vector
Formula(31) Example: helix of unit speed
Formula(32) Tangential vector to the curve with unit length
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Formula(34) Curvature of the curve
Formula(35) Unit normal vector
Formula(36) Binormal vector
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Formula(38) Torsion
Formula(39) Frenet Frame or the repere mobile (moving frame)
Formula(40) Frenet frame equations
Formula(41) Curvature for a unit speed curve Formula
Formula(42) Torsion for a unit speed curve Formula
Formula(43) Velocity
Formula(44) Acceleration
Formula(45) Centripetal acceleration
Formula(46) Curvature for a regular curve Formula
Formula(47) Torsion for a regular curve Formula
Formula(48) Triple vector product
Formula(49) Taylor series expansion
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Formula with
s arclength
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(53) Fundamental Theorem of Curves
Formula straight line(54) Straight line
Formula plane curve(55) Plane curve
2 Differential Forms
Formula(1) Tangent space at Formula
Formula(2) 1-Form at Formula is a linear map
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Formula(5) real-valued Formula function
Formula(6) Differential Formula
Formula(7) Directional derivative of the function in the direction of that vector
Formula(8) Standard basis of the tangent space Formula
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Formula(10) Basis of the cotangent space Formula
Formula(11) Smooth function
Formula(12) Coordinates of a point Formula
Formula(13) Differential Formula
Formula(14) 1-Form, covariant tensor of rank 1, or simply a covecto
Formula(15) Formula functions
Formula(16) Formula exact
Formula(17) 1-Form
Formula(18) Vector Field
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Formula(21) Bilinear map on the tangent space
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Formula(24) Tensor Product of the 1-Form Formula and Formula
Formula(25) Covariant tensor of rank 2
Formula(26) Like a basis for the Covariant tensor of rank 2
Formula(27) Tensor Product of vectors
Formula(25) Contravariant tensor of rank 2
Formula(26) General tensor
Formula(30) Vector fields
Formula(31) Inner product (dot product)
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Formula(37) metric
Formula(38) metric tensor
Formula(39) 1-Form
Formula(40) 1-Form
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Formula(42) Raise covariant indices
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Formula(45) Differential of arclength
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(46) Minkowski’s space & metric
Formula(47) Differential of arclength
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(48) Rising index
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(49) Alternating map
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(49) Wedge Products - 2-Form
Formula(50) 2-Form
Formula(51) The wedge product of two 1-forms is alternating
Formula(52) The wedge product of two 1-forms is bilinear.
Formula(53) Anti-commute product
Formula(54) Differential of arclength
Formula(55) Differential of arclength
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(56) Differential of arclength
Formula(57) 3-Form
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(58) Formula space
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(59) Formula space
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3 Connections
4 Theory of Surfaces
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