...convex curve in the vertical outline of a pilaster or of the shaft of a column. Epicycloid. — A curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle. Epicycloidal Tooth. — See "Tooth." Equalizer. — An adjuster;...

...full mesh. At this point it may not be out of place to observe that an epicycloidal curve is a curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon the convex side of a fixed circle, and a hypocycloidal curve is a curve described by a point on...

...bisector of this angle is the required tangent. 6-76. Drawing a Cycloid a. A cycloid is generated by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a straight . line. The circumference of a circle is divided into % 8 equal parts with each radius numbered...

...epicycloids and hypocycloids without considering the simplest of them all, the cycloid, which is the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a fixed straight line. This curve has an infinite number of cusps, traced as the point descends to the...

...curves called ' the ovals of Descartes '. Next to the conic sections the cycloid, the curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a horizontal line, was the curve most often investigated. Its early history is connected with a problem...

...circumference should be obtained by geometrical construction. Cycloid : Cycloid is a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a straight line without slipping. Cycloidal II Involutes Spirals 1 Helices curves I r~ t 1. Archimedian...

...circumference should be obtained by geometrical construction. Cycloid : Cycloid is a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a straight line without slipping. r T ~T I Helices Cycloidal curves Involutes Spirals I r~ ~~» 1. Archimedian...

...the particle starts the motion it is simple harmonic and period remains the same. *Cycloid is locus of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a fixed straight line (O is the vertex of the cycloid. AA' is base of the cycloid), x = a (0 + sin 0),...

...cy'clicism; cyclic'ity; cy'clist one who rides on a cycle; cy'cloid a figure like a circle: a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a straight line. — adj. nearly circular: cyclothymic: characterised by swings of mood (psych). —...

...optics, acoustics, etc. TTie Cycloid. — The cycloid in its simplest form is the curve described by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls along a given straight line. In its broader sense the cycloid may be defined as the curve described by any...