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In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle — called an ''epicycle'' — which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular kind of roulette. If the smaller circle has radius ''r'', and the larger circle has radius ''R'' = ''kr'', then the parametric equations for the curve can be given by either: : : or: : : If ''k'' is an integer, then the curve is closed, and has ''k'' cusps (i.e., sharp corners, where the curve is not differentiable). If ''k'' is a rational number, say ''k=p/q'' expressed in simplest terms, then the curve has ''p'' cusps. If ''k'' is an irrational number, then the curve never closes, and forms a dense subset of the space between the larger circle and a circle of radius ''R'' + 2''r''. Image:Epicycloid-1.svg| ''k'' = 1 Image:Epicycloid-2.svg| ''k'' = 2 Image:Epicycloid-3.svg| ''k'' = 3 Image:Epicycloid-4.svg| ''k'' = 4 Image:Epicycloid-2-1.svg| ''k'' = 2.1 = 21/10 Image:Epicycloid-3-8.svg| ''k'' = 3.8 = 19/5 Image:Epicycloid-5-5.svg| ''k'' = 5.5 = 11/2 Image:Epicycloid-7-2.svg| ''k'' = 7.2 = 36/5 The epicycloid is a special kind of epitrochoid. An epicycle with one cusp is a cardioid. An epicycloid and its evolute are similar.〔(Epicycloid Evolute - from Wolfram MathWorld )〕 ==Proof== We assume that the position of is what we want to solve, is the radian from the tangential point to the moving point , and is the radian from the starting point to the tangential point. Since there is no sliding between the two cycles, then we have that : By the definition of radian (which is the rate arc over radius), then we have that : From these two conditions, we get the identity : By calculating, we get the relation between and , which is : From the figure, we see the position of the point clearly. : : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Epicycloid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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