Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 8 - Section 8.4 - Plane Curves and Parametric Equations - 8.4 Exercises - Page 619: 64

Answer

$x=(a+b)cos\theta - b\cdot cos(\frac{a+b}{b}\theta)$ $y=(a+b)sin\theta - b\cdot sin(\frac{a+b}{b}\theta)$

Work Step by Step

This problem is similar to Exercise 63, except that the circle C is rolling outside the big circle. So we need to modify the equations in Exercise 63. The first difference is that the $(a-b)$ term in the front of the equations become $(a+b)$, and the second difference is that the angle inside the last term changed from $(\alpha-\theta)=(\frac{a}{b}\theta-\theta)$ to $(\pi-\alpha-\theta)=(\pi-\frac{a}{b}\theta-\theta)$ (This is because when circle C is rolling outside, angle OCP will be $\alpha$, see figure in Exercise 63). Thus we can write the epicycloid equations as $x=(a+b)cos\theta - b\cdot cos(\frac{a+b}{b}\theta)$ and $y=(a+b)sin\theta - b\cdot sin(\frac{a+b}{b}\theta)$
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