Putnam 1941 A3
- Session A
A circle of radius rolls in the plane along the -axis. Show that the envelope of a diameter is a cycloid, coinciding with the cycloid traced out by a point on the circumference of a circle of diameter , likewise rolling in the plane along the -axis.
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