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L0G0CYCLIC CURVE, STROPHOID

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 919 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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L0G0CYCLIC See also:

CURVE, STROPHOID or FOLIATE, a cubic curve generated by increasing or diminishing the See also:radius vector of a variable point Q on a straight See also:line AB by the distance QC of the point from the See also:foot of the perpendicular See also:drawn from the origin to the fixed line. The polar See also:equation is rcosO =a(r t sing), the upper sign referring to the See also:case when the vector is increased, the See also:lower when it is diminished. Both branches are included in the Cartesian equation (x2+y2) (2a—x) =a2x, where a is the distance of the line from the origin. If we take for axes the fixed line and the perpendicular through the initial point, the equation takes the See also:form y sl (a—x) =x Al (a+x). The curve resembles the See also:folium of See also:Descartes, and has a See also:node between x = o, x = a, and two branches asymptotic to the line x=-- 2a.

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