Right Strophoid

The Strophoid of a line with pole not on and fixed point being the point where thePerpendicular from to cuts is called a right strophoid. It is therefore a general Strophoid with.

The right strophoid is given by the Cartesian equation

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The right strophoid first appears in work by Isaac Barrow in 1670, although Torricelli describes the curve in his lettersaround 1645 and Roberval found it as the Locus of the focus of the conic obtained when the plane cutting theMacTutor Archive). The Area of the loop is

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Let be the Circle with center at the point where the right strophoid crosses the -axis and radius the distance of that point from the origin. Then the rightstrophoid is invariant under inversion in the Circle and istherefore an Anallagmatic Curve.

References

Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 71, 1993.

Lawrence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 100-104, 1972.

Lockwood, E. H. ``The Right Strophoid.'' Ch. 10 in A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 90-97, 1967.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. ``Right Strophoid.''http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Right.html.

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