Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Cycloid Ii
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson provides an introduction to the integral in the sense of finding the length of a curve. In the lesson, student deconstruct a cycloid (formed by following a piece of tape on the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Cycloid I
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is more about student prediction and reasoning than actual formal math. In the lesson, students are to propose the shape that would be formed by a point on a bicycle tire, while...
Other
Gobierno De Navarra: Cicloides Y Trocoides
This unit shows the graph of a polar equation and gives several pretty graphed examples. It shows the difference in the graphs just by varying a constant value.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Bernoulli, Johann (1667 1748)
This site from ScienceWorld contains a short but factual biography of Johann Bernoulli. Includes a picture, along with quite a few links that contain additional information on related subjects.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Cycloid
View the example that shows how a cycloid is created.
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Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Circles of Curvature 1 [Pdf]
The handout examines the centers of curvature of a curve. Students use a compass to sketch the circles from a given curve and its evolute. The handout is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Circles of Curvature 2 [Pdf]
The handout examines the centers of curvature of a curve. Students use a compass to sketch the circles from a given curve and its evolute. The handout is available in PDF format.