Section 5.4 Orientation of surfaces
Objectives
You should be able to:
Determine the tangent plane to a parametric surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) at a point.
Determine the normal vector to a parametric surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) at a point.
Define the orientation of a parametric surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\text{,}\) and how it is determined by the normal vector.