Fundamental forms of an elliptic ring torus
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Rotate an ellipse with positive semiaxes about an axis a distance from its centre. For the parametrized surface , put and . An outward unit normal is . Direct differentiation gives the first fundamental form and second fundamental form, with the convention :Reversing the unit normal reverses , but the Gaussian curvature is unchanged.
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