Monday, April 25, 2011

Cycloid

A cycloid is the curve generated by a point on a wheel as the wheel rolls. This diagram shows half of a loop of the standard cycloid, whose parametric form is
(t - sin t, 1 - cos t):



Which is larger, the blue area or the orange area?
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