Roulette Wikipedia English
In the differential geometry of curves, a roulette is a kind of curve, generalizing cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, trochoids, epitrochoids, hypotrochoids, and involutes.
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Definition[edit]
Informal definition[edit]
Roughly speaking, a roulette is the curve described by a point (called the generator or pole) attached to a given curve as that curve rolls without slipping, along a second given curve that is fixed. More precisely, given a curve attached to a plane which is moving so that the curve rolls, without slipping, along a given curve attached to a fixed plane occupying the same space, then a point attached to the moving plane describes a curve, in the fixed plane called a roulette.
Special cases and related concepts[edit]
In the case where the rolling curve is a line and the generator is a point on the line, the roulette is called an involute of the fixed curve. If the rolling curve is a circle and the fixed curve is a line then the roulette is a trochoid. If, in this case, the point lies on the circle then the roulette is a cycloid.
A related concept is a glissette, the curve described by a point attached to a given curve as it slides along two (or more) given curves.
Formal definition[edit]
Formally speaking, the curves must be differentiable curves in the Euclidean plane. The fixed curve is kept invariant; the rolling curve is subjected to a continuouscongruence transformation such that at all times the curves are tangent at a point of contact that moves with the same speed when taken along either curve (another way to express this constraint is that the point of contact of the two curves is the instant centre of rotation of the congruence transformation). The resulting roulette is formed by the locus of the generator subjected to the same set of congruence transformations.
Modeling the original curves as curves in the complex plane, let be the two natural parameterizations of the rolling () and fixed () curves, such that , , and for all . The roulette of generator as is rolled on is then given by the mapping:
Generalizations[edit]
If, instead of a single point being attached to the rolling curve, another given curve is carried along the moving plane, a family of congruent curves is produced. The envelope of this family may also be called a roulette.
Roulettes in higher spaces can certainly be imagined but one needs to align more than just the tangents.
Example[edit]
If the fixed curve is a catenary and the rolling curve is a line, we have:
The parameterization of the line is chosen so that
Applying the formula above we obtain:
If p = −i the expression has a constant imaginary part (namely −i) and the roulette is a horizontal line. An interesting application of this is that a square wheel could roll without bouncing on a road that is a matched series of catenary arcs.
List of roulettes[edit]
Fixed curve | Rolling curve | Generating point | Roulette |
---|---|---|---|
Any curve | Line | Point on the line | Involute of the curve |
Line | Any | Any | Cyclogon |
Line | Circle | Any | Trochoid |
Line | Circle | Point on the circle | Cycloid |
Line | Conic section | Center of the conic | Sturm roulette[2] |
Line | Conic section | Focus of the conic | Delaunay roulette[3] |
Line | Parabola | Focus of the parabola | Catenary[4] |
Line | Ellipse | Focus of the ellipse | Elliptic catenary[4] |
Line | Hyperbola | Focus of the hyperbola | Hyperbolic catenary[4] |
Line | Hyperbola | Center of the hyperbola | Rectangular elastica[2][failed verification] |
Line | Cyclocycloid | Center | Ellipse[5] |
Circle | Circle | Any | Centered trochoid[6] |
Outside of a circle | Circle | Any | Epitrochoid |
Outside of a circle | Circle | Point on the circle | Epicycloid |
Outside of a circle | Circle of identical radius | Any | Limaçon |
Outside of a circle | Circle of identical radius | Point on the circle | Cardioid |
Outside of a circle | Circle of half the radius | Point on the circle | Nephroid |
Inside of a circle | Circle | Any | Hypotrochoid |
Inside of a circle | Circle | Point on the circle | Hypocycloid |
Inside of a circle | Circle of a third of the radius | Point on the circle | Deltoid |
Inside of a circle | Circle of a quarter of the radius | Point on the circle | Astroid |
Parabola | Equal parabola parameterized in opposite direction | Vertex of the parabola | Cissoid of Diocles[1] |
Catenary | Line | See example above | Line |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ ab'Cissoid' on www.2dcurves.com
- ^ ab'Sturm's roulette' on www.mathcurve.com
- ^'Delaunay's roulette' on www.mathcurve.com
- ^ abc'Delaunay's roulette' on www.2dcurves.com
- ^'Roulette with straight fixed curve' on www.mathcurve.com
- ^'Centered trochoid' on mathcurve.com
References[edit]
Roulette Wikipedia English Grammar
- W. H. Besant (1890) Notes on Roulettes and Glissettes from Cornell University Historical Math Monographs, originally published by Deighton, Bell & Co.
- Weisstein, Eric W.'Roulette'. MathWorld.
Roulette Wikipedia English Free
Further reading[edit]
- Base, roulante et roulettes d'un mouvement plan sur plan(in French)
- Eine einheitliche Darstellung von ebenen, verallgemeinerten Rollbewegungen und deren Anwendungen(in German)