Hypocyclic Mechanism
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This Demonstration simulates a mechanism used to convert rotary motion into rectilinear motion.
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Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (October 2016)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The parametric equation of the hypocycloid formed by rolling a circle of radius inside a circle of radius is:
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With and , the right-hand side becomes , which is the parametric equation of a line segment between the points and .
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