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XXXV.—On the Theory of Rolling Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

James Clerk Maxwell
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Abstract

There is an important geometrical problem which proposes to find a curve having a given relation to a series of curves described according to a given law. This is the problem of Trajectories in its general form.

The series of curves is obtained from the general equation to a curve by the variation of its parameters. In the general case, this variation may change the form of the curve, but, in the case which we are about to consider, the curve is changed only in position.

This change of position takes place partly by rotation, and partly by transference through space. The rolling of one curve on another is an example of this compound motion.

Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , 1849 , pp. 519 - 540
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1849

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