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What about the tangent, at these points, in the sense of the “definition” above? • In the case of the circle, the expected limit does not exist! Indeed, we observe immediately that lim t→0 t<0 f (t) − f (t0 ) = (−1, 0), f (t) − f (t0 ) lim t→0 t>0 f (t) − f (t0 ) = (1, 0). f (t) − f (t0 ) Both results are different, thus the limit does not exist. • In the case of the two half-circles, the same kind of computation shows at once that g(t) − g(t0 ) lim = (1, 0) t→0 g(t) − g(t0 ) and the limit exists.
13 Skew Curves Let us now switch to the case of skew curves, or space curves, that is: curves in the three dimensional space R3 . The systematic study of skew curves was initiated in 1731 by the French mathematician Clairaut. His idea is to present a skew curve as the intersection of two surfaces, just as a line can be presented as the intersection of two planes. A skew curve is thus described by a system of two equations F (x, y, z) = 0 G(x, y, z) = 0. The tangent line to the skew curve at a given point is then obtained as the intersection of the tangent planes to the surfaces F (x, y, z) = 0, G(x, y, z) = 0 at this same point.
We study the curvature at f (t0 ) and there is no loss of generality in choosing a rectangular system of coordinates with origin f (t0 ) and such that f (t0 ) is oriented along the third axis. Thus f (t0 ) = (0, 0, 0), f (t0 ) = 0, 0, f3 (t0 ) . The normal plane at f (t0 ) is thus the plane with equation z = 0. The normal plane at f (t) admits the equation f1 (t) x − f1 (t) + f2 (t) y − f2 (t) + f3 (t) z − f3 (t) = 0. Its intersection with the plane z = 0 is thus the line with equation f1 (t) x − f1 (t) + f2 (t) y − f2 (t) = f3 (t)f3 (t) in the (x, y)-plane.