Describing Surfaces Explicitly, Implicitly & Parametrically // Vector Calculus

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This isn't really a good way of thinking about it. These surfaces are just a map from 2D to 3D.

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[@DrTrefor]

Haha glad it helps:)

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[@DrTrefor]

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Very nice image of the meaning of parameterization at the end of the video. Such elegance in thought.

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Wonderful!!! You have exposed the explanations which remain hidden: 2D surface to 3D surface parameterisation.

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i really loved that last point of view! It would have been nice if you put some points in the r-theta axes and see where is it on the x-y-z space nice video!!

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Wow I get how cones are the fundamental shape of implicit quadratic functions it’s just a circle that has a height that stretches the radius by that height I guess that’s why space time is a cone

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[@leadtoexemplify]

r is not z-height right? r is the projection length of the point. did I miss? Thanks for the video. Finally I understand the intuition behind parameterization. never too late to learn it properly

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Why were you not my professor in uni :(

[@DrTrefor]

haha if only!

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[@wilurbean]

This seems like, and I haven't watched forward yet, like we're gonna smash that line integral into 2D or 3D and use Jacobians.

[@ironheart444]

Thanks for the explanation, it is really good and your videos are really helping! Also, one question: if you were given a parametric surface, i.e. the equation only r(r, theta), what would be your approach in trying to find the shape of this surface? Let's say that you are asked to draw the curve and it is not an impossible one hahaha

[@j.o.5957]

Question to myself: so it seems that we can parameterize anything to turn it into what's essentially a square (or perhaps a cube if you're looking for volume). That would be a natural parameterization. I can see how we find that for this concrete example. But is there a general formula for this? And what would that look like? I know there is cylindrical coordinates and spherical coordinates, but these seem hard to find. Looking forwards to finding out if there's an answer to this, how to select a natural parameterization.

[@DrTrefor]

Broadly speaking, a useful parametrization is one that captures naturally symmetries in the constraints of a system.

[@j.o.5957]

@@DrTrefor Interesting, I'll think a bit about that, thank you

[@chandankar5032]

So...Here we gotta choose the parameterisation such a way ,so that we can see how the surface is sektched by r(t) in xy plane and z axis individually. Is there anything more to it ,why we did that parametrisation ? Edit: Also why we need two parameters in 3D in the first place ? So that if we hide one parameter it gives the curve in XY pane and hiding the other gives the Z axis component ,right ?

[@claris4807]

In the cone example, I think the phi corner (top corner with the z-axis) should also be taken into consideration, as r runs from 0 to 3. For me the a cone consist of piled circles (disks) arranged from small to large. By taking the top corner into consideration the latter is fixed. So why not using three parameters (r, theta, phi) instead of two (r, theta)?

[@cantorbernoulli4407]

Hi dr. Trefor first of all thanks for the video, i got a guestion is there a specific way of who we find the parametric equation of a function?

[@masoncamera273]

How would you take the gradient of a vector function with r(u,v) when it has three components of only two variables?

[@alexanderwhittemore1491]

Why did we need to introduce two variables u and v, instead of just leaving the variable t?

[@sejalpotbhare3238]

Sir if we are given some vector function f(x,y,z) and a surface in xy plane which is bounded by x^2+y^2=z^2 and the plane z=4 ....then what will be the double integral of f.n dS?

[@luphiax4239]

In which video have you explained cylindrical coordinates as you said?

[@UtkarshRuhela]

Why do we need two parameters exactly to describe a surface in 3D? Why not 1 or 3 parameters?

[@DrTrefor]

It’s sort of a definition. We call a 2D surface an object described by two parameters

[@arielfuxman8868]

3:55 can the bound of u be dependant on the value of v?

[@DrTrefor]

Yup that is fine. It gets messier when it is nonrectanular in the uv space, but certainly not imposible. It's just like integrating over a nonrectangular region in the xy plane.

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Could you pls do class on Laplace and Fourier transforms

[@DrTrefor]

Have a whole playlist on laplace transforms:)

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[@benking6908]

Shouldn't the limits of theta be exclusive of 2 Pi, so that you don't double count it with zero? In the video it says less than or equal to 2 Pi.

[@DrTrefor]

This is going to be more relevant when we actually use these descriptions, but we often want to be able to describe the boundaries of a region. Take the simple unit circle which we paameterize with theta between 0 and 2 pi inclusive. Now it has two defined endpoints, one starting at 0 and one ending at 2pi and can do an integral from 0 to 2pi. If we used strictly less than 2pi, then it no longer has two endpoints.

[@Festus2022]

why do you say you're describing a 2 dimensional surface, when a cone is a 3 dimensional structure? Not sure what you mean by a 2D cone embedded in 3D.

[@DrTrefor]

It’s similar to the surface of the earth. We can only walk two directions, north/south or East/west. Yes there is a third direction up into the air but if constrained to the earth we can’t access it, so “2 degrees of freedom embedded in 3D”

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