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| Sep29-10, 02:35 PM | #1 |
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How would we express the curvature of the 2-dimensional surface of a
How would we express the curvature of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere without referring to a radius of curvature or any other extra-dimensional description?
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| Sep29-10, 03:37 PM | #2 |
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I assume you are refering to the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic curvature. Look up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature But I don't know the details... |
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