Length of a general Archimedean spiral
The Endeavour 2024-04-19
Summary:
This post ties together the previous three posts. In this post, I said that an Archimedean spiral has the polar equation r = b θ1/n and applied this here to rolls of carpet. When n = 1, the length of the spiral for θ running from 0 to T is approximately ½ bT² with the […]
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