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  2. List of curves - Wikipedia

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    Two Dimensional Curves; Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves; Curves and Surfaces Index (Harvey Mudd College) National Curve Bank; An elementary treatise on cubic and quartic curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901) online at Google Books

  3. Logarithmic spiral - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] More than a century later, the curve was discussed by Descartes (1638), and later extensively investigated by Jacob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, "the marvelous spiral". The logarithmic spiral is distinct from the Archimedean spiral in that the distances between the turnings of a logarithmic spiral increase in a geometric ...

  4. Polar curve - Wikipedia

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    The p-th polar of a C for a natural number p is defined as Δ Q p f(x, y, z) = 0. This is a curve of degree n−p. When p is n−1 the p-th polar is a line called the polar line of C with respect to Q. Similarly, when p is n−2 the curve is called the polar conic of C.

  5. Polar ecology - Wikipedia

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    The main type of soil in the polar regions is ahumic soil. [15] This includes the cold desert soil. This soil consists of sand that is frozen. These soils tend to not have an abundant amount of vegetation but bacteria has been found. The other type of soil is organic soil. This type of soil is found in areas that are warmer and have more moisture.

  6. Polar diagram - Wikipedia

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    A polar diagram could refer to: Polar area diagram, a type of pie chart; Radiation pattern, in antenna theory; A diagram based on polar coordinates; Spherical coordinate system, the three-dimensional form of a polar response curve; In sailing, a Polar diagram is a graph that shows a sailing boats potential wind speed over a range of wind and ...

  7. Arctic ecology - Wikipedia

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    A common example is the presence of strikingly large feet in proportion to body weight. These act like snowshoes and can be found on animals like the snowshoe hare and caribou. Many of the animals in the Arctic are larger than their temperate counterparts ( Bergmann’s rule ), taking advantage of the smaller ratio of surface area to volume ...

  8. Archimedean spiral - Wikipedia

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    Archimedean spiral represented on a polar graph The Archimedean spiral has the property that any ray from the origin intersects successive turnings of the spiral in points with a constant separation distance (equal to 2 πb if θ is measured in radians ), hence the name "arithmetic spiral".

  9. Rose (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of roses are composed of petals.A petal is the shape formed by the graph of a half-cycle of the sinusoid that specifies the rose. (A cycle is a portion of a sinusoid that is one period T = ⁠ 2π / k ⁠ long and consists of a positive half-cycle, the continuous set of points where r ≥ 0 and is ⁠ T / 2 ⁠ = ⁠ π / k ⁠ long, and a negative half-cycle is the other half where r ...