Teaching Materials/Cycloid calculus
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|Description||By parametrizing the cycloid, we can deduce many of the physical properties that are apparent by watching a bicycle wheel.|
|Concept||Photographs of moving bicycles sometimes show a nice picture of the spokes at the bottom with a blur of spokes at the top. By considering the elementary calculus of the cycloid, we can discover an explanation of this phenomenon.|
|Goals||To introduce a parametrization of the cycloid and use it to determine the tangent vector to the curve at various points.|
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