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Cycloid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cycloid gear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cycloidal gear profile is a form of toothed gear used in mechanical clocks. The gear tooth profile is based on the epicycloid and hypocycloid curves, which are the curves generated by a circle r...
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The cycloid catacaustic when the rays are parallel to the y-axis is a cycloid with twice as many arches. The radial curve of a cycloid is a circle. ...
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The cycloid was first studied by Cusa when he was attempting to find the area of a circle by integration. ... Mersenne gave the first proper definition of the cycloid and stated the obvious properties such as the length of the base equals the circumference of the rolling circle. Mersenne attempted to find the area under...
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When a circle rolls along a stationary straight line a point on the circumference of the circle traces a curve called a cycloid. ... R07 is a small circle rolling on a great circle with the resulting spherical cycloid marked.
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In 1658 Christopher Wren showed that the length of a cycloid is four times the diameter of its generating circle. The cycloid has been called "The Helen of Geometers" as it caused frequent quarrels among 17th century mathematicians.
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An automaton is a system of circles (actually planar coordinate systems) moving relative to one another in a hierarchical fashion. That is, every circle in the system except one will be rolling along the circumference of one other circle at every moment in time.
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