What is mean curvature of a surface?
What is mean curvature of a surface? In mathematics, the mean curvature of a surface. is an extrinsic measure of curvature that comes from differential geometry and that locally describes the curvature of an embedded surface in some ambient space such as Euclidean space. The concept was used by Sophie Germain in her work on elasticity theory. How do you calculate the mean curvature? Half of the sum of the principal curvatures (cf. Principal curvature) k1 and k2, calculated at a point A of this surface: H(A)=k1+k22. What is the mean curvature of a minimal surface? zero Mean curvature definition:...