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In geometry, the sinusoidal spirals are a family of curves defined by the equation in polar coordinates : where ''a'' is a nonzero constant and ''n'' is a rational number other than 0. With a rotation about the origin, this can also be written : The term "spiral" is a misnomer, because they are not actually spirals, and often have a flower-like shape. Many well known curves are sinusoidal spirals including: * Equilateral hyperbola (''n'' = −2) * Line (''n'' = −1) * Parabola (''n'' = −1/2) * Tschirnhausen cubic (''n'' = −1/3) * Cayley's sextet (''n'' = 1/3) * Cardioid (''n'' = 1/2) * Circle (''n'' = 1) * Lemniscate of Bernoulli (''n'' = 2) The curves were first studied by Colin Maclaurin. ==Equations== Differentiating : and eliminating ''a'' produces a differential equation for ''r'' and θ: :. Then : which implies that the polar tangential angle is : and so the tangential angle is :. (The sign here is positive if ''r'' and cos ''n''θ have the same sign and negative otherwise.) The unit tangent vector, :, has length one, so comparing the magnitude of the vectors on each side of the above equation gives :. In particular, the length of a single loop when is: : The curvature is given by :. 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「sinusoidal spiral」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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