MM512: Curves and Surfaces (5 ECTS)

STADS: 13001201

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: fenix@imada.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Comment:
Ubegrænset deltagerantal. 4.kvartal.

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
The content of MM501Calculus I and MM502 Calculus II or FF502/ FF506/ MM529 must be known. Linear algebra and differential equations must be known.

Course introduction
The course will introduce analytic techniques to deal with parameterized curves and surfaces in three dimensions and give the students methods to visualize the geometric results obtained.

Qualifications
Having successfully completed the course, the students can be expected to work analytically with the following concepts, understand the geometric content of and connections between these ideas, and to illustrate these concepts using a computer:

• arc-length, curvature and torsion for curves in the plane and three-dimensional space
• regularity of a parameterization
• principal, Gaussian and mean curvatures for a surface in three-dimensional space
• geodesic curves on parameterized surfaces in three-dimensions

Expected learning outcome
By the end of the course the student will be able to:

• reproduce definitions and results, together with their proofs, in the geometry of plane- and space-curves and of surfaces in space, within the scope of the course's syllabus
• apply these results to examples
• formulate and present definitions, proofs and computations in a mathematically rigorous way

Subject overview

• Curves and arc-length
• Plane curves: signed curvature, the fundamental theorem, the isoperimetric inequality
• Space curves: curvature and torsion, the fundamental theorem
• Parameterized surfaces: regular patches, the tangent space, graphs, surfaces of revolution, normal curvature, geodesic curvature, the first and second fundamental forms, principal curvatures, Gaussian curvature, mean curvature.
• Geodesic curves and the equations describing them.

Literature

• Meddeles ved kursets start.: .

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
a) Mandatory assignments, which is worked-on and handed-in during the course, pass/fail, examined internally by the teacher.
b) Take-home exam at the end of the course. Grades according to the Danish 7-point scale, external examiner.

Reexamination after 2. quarter.
The re-exam may differ from the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger (28 timer), eksaminatorier (22 timer).
Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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