Geodesic Curvature
For a unit speed curve on a surface, the length of the surface-tangential component of acceleration is the geodesiccurvature 
. Curves with 
are called Geodesics. For a curve parameterizedas 
, the geodesic curvature is given by
where
, 
, and 
are coefficients of the first Fundamental Form and 
are Christoffel Symbols of the Second Kind.See also Geodesic
References
Gray, A. ``Geodesic Curvature.'' §20.5 in Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 402-407, 1993.
- Square
- Square Bracket Polynomial
- Square Cupola
- Square Curve
- Square Cutting
- Squared
- Squared Square
- Square-Free
- Squarefree
- Butterfly Catastrophe
- Butterfly Curve
- Butterfly Effect
- Butterfly Fractal
- Butterfly Polyiamond
- Butterfly Theorem
- Bäcklund Transformation
- Bézier Curve
- Bézier Spline
- C
- C*
- Cable Knot
- Cactus Fractal
- Cake Cutting
- Cal
- Calabi's Triangle