Poinsot's Spirals

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Poinsot's spirals are the two polar curves with equations

			(1)
			(2)

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References

Lawrence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 192 and 194, 1972.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Poinsot's Spirals." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PoinsotsSpirals.html

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