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Square Wheels

Square Wheels

James Taylor posted on the Graphing Calculator users list showing square and octogonal wheels moving smoothly along a road made of catenary arcs. I rewrote the equations in terms of a complex variable z=x+iy. Download Graphing Calculator file.

Check out Stan Wagon's square wheeled bicycle here.

Posted by Ron Avitzur on September 8, 2006 12:30 PM |

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