Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/ii/paper-3/23h/i/solution

For an oriented surface normal and a unit-speed curve tangent , take signed geodesic curvature . This convention uses boundary orientation with the region on the right; reversing to the usual left-hand boundary convention reverses both orientation and the corresponding curvature convention. With positive orientation consistent this way, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a region with piecewise smooth boundary is
For a disk with smooth boundary there are no corner terms and . Stating the signed convention is necessary to reproduce the sign in part (ii).

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