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Surface geometry in Atlas 2D/3D Wizard

This tutorial illustrates how to use the Atlas 2D/3D Wizard package to solve problems in elementary differential geometry. As an example we find the geometry of the torus.

What we give?

Torus in 3D space (Cartesian coordinate system):
x = (a+b*Cos[u])*Cos[v]
y = (a+b*Cos[u])*Sin[v]
z = b*Sin[v]

What we do?

  • We calculate the following quantities: first fundamental form ( surface metric ), second fundamental form and field of mean curvature vectors.
    • Besides that we calculate the connection, Christoffel symbols, curvature, curvature tensor field (Riemann tensor field), Ricci tensor field, Gauss curvature and Laplace operator.
    • Run atlas 2D/3D Wizard and press NEXT button
    • Choose  3D - space and press NEXT button
    • Select RECTANGULAR coordinate system and press NEXT button
    • Select SURFACE and press NEXT button
    • Enter the surface equations and press NEXT button (u, v are surface coordinates)
    • Press Check-Out button or just skip this step and press NEXT button
    • Specify a worksheet to save the Mathematica® code (output.mws by default).
    • Press FINISH button and execute in Mathematica® the generated file
    You will see the results of the execution in the worksheet: surface metric, second fundamental form, mean curvature vector, connection, Christoffel symbols, curvature, Riemann and Ricci tensors, Gauss curvature, Laplace operator.
    It takes 2 minutes to solve this problem from the beginning to the end! Just try it.