Sunday, 23 August 2015

calculus - Where did I go wrong? Calculating k(t) for mathbfr(t)=langlecos(2t),sin(2t),4trangle.

I'm calculating the curvature k(t) of the function




r(t)=cos(2t),sin(2t),4t.



The formula I'm using is



k(t)=||r(t)×r(t)||||r(t)||3.



Here's my work:



r(t)=2sin(2t),2cos(2t),4;r(t)=4cos(2t),4sin(2t),0



Therefore:



r(t)×r(t)=(016sin(2t))i(0+16cos(2t))j+(8)k



(Note that I got 8k using the Pythagorean identity.)



So

||r(t)×r(t)||=162+82(Pythagorean again)=645.



Then, I got
||r(t)||=4+4(also Pythagorean identity)=22,



so ||r(t)||3=2(2)3=162.



So finally, I have
k(t)=645162k(t)=210.



Thoughts? I probably just misdifferentiated somewhere or took the cross-product incorrectly. Thanks!

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