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  2. Arc length - Wikipedia

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    Arc length s of a logarithmic spiral as a function of its parameter θ. Arc length is the distance between two points along a section of a curve. Development of a formulation of arc length suitable for applications to mathematics and the sciences is a focus of calculus.

  3. Goat grazing problem - Wikipedia

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    The arc length of an involute is given by so the arc length |FG| of the involute in the fourth quadrant is []. Let c be the length of an arc segment of the involute between the y -axis and a vertical line tangent to the silo at θ = 3 π /2; it is the arc subtended by Φ .

  4. Additional Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Each question may contain from zero to three subsets of questions with marks ranging from 2 to 8 marks. The total weighting of the paper is 80 marks and constitutes 44% of the grade. Paper 2 (Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes): Questions are categorised into 3 sections: A, B and C. Section A contains 7 questions which must all be answered. Section B ...

  5. Whewell equation - Wikipedia

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    Important quantities in the Whewell equation. The Whewell equation of a plane curve is an equation that relates the tangential angle (φ) with arc length (s), where the tangential angle is the angle between the tangent to the curve at some point and the x-axis, and the arc length is the distance along the curve from a fixed point.

  6. Circular segment - Wikipedia

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    A circular segment (in green) is enclosed between a secant/chord (the dashed line) and the arc whose endpoints equal the chord's (the arc shown above the green area). In geometry, a circular segment or disk segment (symbol: ⌓) is a region of a disk [1] which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a straight line.

  7. Line element - Wikipedia

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    The coordinate-independent definition of the square of the line element ds in an n-dimensional Riemannian or Pseudo Riemannian manifold (in physics usually a Lorentzian manifold) is the "square of the length" of an infinitesimal displacement [2] (in pseudo Riemannian manifolds possibly negative) whose square root should be used for computing curve length: = = (,) where g is the metric tensor ...

  8. Great-circle distance - Wikipedia

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    The great-circle distance, orthodromic distance, or spherical distance is the distance between two points on a sphere, measured along the great-circle arc between them. This arc is the shortest path between the two points on the surface of the sphere. (By comparison, the shortest path passing through the sphere's interior is the chord between ...

  9. Lemniscate elliptic functions - Wikipedia

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    The trigonometric sine and cosine analogously relate the arc length of an arc of a unit-diameter circle to the distance of one endpoint from the origin. L {\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}} , the lemniscate of Bernoulli with unit distance from its center to its furthest point (i.e. with unit "half-width"), is essential in the theory of the ...