Elements of analytical geometry and the differential and integral calculus (1856)
Robinson, Horatio N. (Horatio Nelson), 1806-1867 · Cincinnati : J. Ernst · leaf 254
e system, whichever system that may be. (Art. 47.) Another important transcendental curve is THE CYCLOID. The cycloid is a curve described by the motion of a point inthe circumference of a circle while the circle rolls along a rightline, the point commencing to move from the line, and to makethe… … TRANSCENDENTAL CURVES. 246 Let M be a point in the circleBMR, and conceive it to roll alongthe line RO from R to G. Thecircular arc RM falls down uponand measures RA, and the pointM moves over and describes thecurve MA in the same time, andthis curve MA is a portion of a cycloid. To find the…
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