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Section 6.2 Orientable vs Non-orientable Surface

love this video. Many surfaces - like a piece of paper or a cylinder - have two sides, right? But not all do! Some only have one, like the mobius band. In this video we talk about orientiable vs non-orientable surfaces. This is mainly going to be relevant later because our theorems will apply only to orientable surfaces.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Visually explain the difference between an orientable and nonorientable surface using normal vectors

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Here are two more non-orientable surface to play around with: the Klein bottle 1  and the Real Projective Plane 2 . Cool, eh! (by the way, playing around with things like this becomes the subject called topology which is why my PhD is in and is awesome!)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_projective_plane