Progression

WkDateTopics
11/25Overview of the material, curves
21/30Surfaces and graphs
2/01Level sets, implicit functions
32/06Regularity for curves
2/08Tangent spaces and regular surfaces
42/13Curves and the tangent space, the Chaine Rule
2/15Reparametrization, the Gauss Map
52/20Local inversion, curves and surfaces as graphs
2/22Arc length
62/27Shortest curves and unit speed reparametrization
2/29The first fundamental form
3/02Extra session: The Implicit Functions Theorem
73/05Midterm 1
3/07Surface areas
8Spring Break
93/19Curvature of plane curves
3/21The tangent angle, curvature of space curves
103/26Torsion, the Frenet frame
3/28Frenet formulas
114/02The Darboux frame, geodesic and normal curvatures
4/04Properties of the normal curvature
124/09The shape operator
4/11Midterm 2
134/16The second fundamental form
4/18Principal curvatures
144/23The type of a surface
4/25Gaussian curvature
154/30Theorema Egregium
5/02Isometries
🎓5/08Final examination