The problem we’re going to look at here can be stated as
follows: for any two coordinate points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) on the
surface of a cylinder, we need to find the curve on the cylinder
connecting those two points which has the smallest possible arc
length S. The shortest path between any two points on a curved
surface is called a geodesic, to clarify the title of this
article and the video above. You could imagine expressing the
generalized coordinates qj in Cartesian coordinates as (x,y,z)
which will represent any curve on the cylinder between the
coordinate points (x1,y1,z1) and (x2,y2,z1). The arc length S can
be expressed as a functional of these coordinates asAs a side not, P1P1 and P2P2
refer to the starting and ending point of the curve as shown in the
video above.) In order to solve the Euler-Lagrange equation for the
coordinates (x,y,z)(x,y,z) which minimize the functional SS, we
need to solve them—and to do that, we must take derivatives of LL
with respect to our choice of generalized coordinates. The general
character of many problems is to choose generalized coordinates
which make evaluating these derivatives the easiest. For this
reason, we’ll choose our generalized coordinates to be polar
coordinates. The algebraic and trigonometric manipulations used to
express our Cartesian coordinates and arc length in terms of polar
coordinates are shown in the video and, for convenience, I’ll also
list them below
The whole point of all that was
just to express SS as functional of the form
S(z(?),z?(?),?)S(z(?),z?(?),?) in terms of polar coordinates
because, according to our derivation, only then can we solve for
the curve z(?)z(?)(using the Euler-Lagrange equation) which
minimizes SS. (It is very important to always know what we’re
actually trying to do in these kinds of problems; it is all too
easy to get lost in the math and lose track of what we’re actually
trying to accomplish.) To actually solve the Euler-Lagrange
equation to find the curve z(?)z(?) whose arc length is minimized,
we’ll need to solve that differential equation. To do this, we’ll
evaluate each of the derivatives as shown in the video and
below
Something very nice happened to the equation on the bottom which, in general, does not happen; we see that the derivative (z?R2+(dzd?)2)(z?R2+(dzd?)2) is equal to zero; if the rate-of-change of that single variable function is zero, then it must be a constant:
(CC represents any arbitrary constant.) To make sure we’re not getting lost in the math, I’ll repeat and continue to repeat, our goal is to find qj(?)=(z(?),R(?)=constant)qj(?)=(z(?),R(?)=constant) which is the curve that minimizes SS. So what we’re going to do is some algebraic manipulations on the equation above to try to isolate z(?)z(?). The first thing that immediately comes to my mind is to integrate both sides to get rid of that derivative on the left-hand side of the equation above. You might try integrating both sides of the equation as it currently is, but let’s do some algebra first (written below) to simplify the thing that we’re taking a derivative of
Notice that the expression on the right-hand side of the bottom equation is a constant. Let’s represent the right-hand side by mm as in the video. Since mm is just a constant when we integrate both sides with respect to the independent variable ??, we get
This equation gives us the shortest path between two points P1P1 and P2P2 if we unraveled the cylinder and flattened it out into a flat plane. If you imagine rolling this plane back up again, the shape that z(?)z(?) will trace out along the surface of the cylinder will be a helix. The Euler-Lagrange equation can be used to find the geodesic on any curved surface. A similar procedure to what we did in this section involving finding the geodesic of a cylinder can be generalized to find the geodesic along any surface.
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