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  2. Nose cone design - Wikipedia

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    Tangent ogive nose cone render and profile with parameters and ogive circle shown. Next to a simple cone, the tangent ogive shape is the most familiar in hobby rocketry . The profile of this shape is formed by a segment of a circle such that the rocket body is tangent to the curve of the nose cone at its base, and the base is on the radius of ...

  3. Tangential angle - Wikipedia

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    In polar coordinates, the polar tangential angle is defined as the angle between the tangent line to the curve at the given point and ray from the origin to the point. [6] If ψ denotes the polar tangential angle, then ψ = φ − θ, where φ is as above and θ is, as usual, the polar angle.

  4. Tangent cone - Wikipedia

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    The definition of the tangent cone can be extended to abstract algebraic varieties, and even to general Noetherian schemes. Let X be an algebraic variety, x a point of X, and (O X,x, m) be the local ring of X at x. Then the tangent cone to X at x is the spectrum of the associated graded ring of O X,x with respect to the m-adic filtration:

  5. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    These definitions E 1, E 2, and E 3 of the envelope may be different sets. Consider for instance the curve y = x 3 parametrised by γ : R → R 2 where γ(t) = (t,t 3). The one-parameter family of curves will be given by the tangent lines to γ. First we calculate the discriminant . The generating function is

  6. GeoGebra - Wikipedia

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    GeoGebra's creator, Markus Hohenwarter, [4] started the project in 2001 as part of his master's thesis at the University of Salzburg. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, GeoGebra expanded its offering to include an iPad, an Android and a Windows Store app version. [5] In 2013, GeoGebra incorporated Bernard Parisse's Xcas [6] into its CAS ...

  7. Analytic geometry - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Informally, it is a line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve.

  8. Circle packing theorem - Wikipedia

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    The intersection graph of a circle packing is the graph having a vertex for each circle, and an edge for every pair of circles that are tangent. If the circle packing is on the plane, or, equivalently, on the sphere, then its intersection graph is called a coin graph ; more generally, intersection graphs of interior-disjoint geometric objects ...

  9. Method of normals - Wikipedia

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    In calculus, the method of normals was a technique invented by Descartes for finding normal and tangent lines to curves. It represented one of the earliest methods for constructing tangents to curves. The method hinges on the observation that the radius of a circle is always normal to the circle itself. With this in mind Descartes would ...