Sunday, 11 July 2021

Some Curves and the Lengths of their Arcs

Some Curves and the Lengths of their Arcs: Here we consider some problems from the Finkel's solution book, concerning the length of curves. The curves  are Cissoid of Diocles, Conchoid of Nicomedes, Lemniscate of Bernoulli, Versiera of Agnesi, Limaçon, Quadratrix, Spiral of Archimedes, Reciprocal or Hyperbolic spiral, the Lituus, Logarithmic spiral, Curve of Pursuit, a curve on the cone and the Loxodrome. The Versiera will be discussed in detail and the link of its name to the Versine function.