In the arbelos, consider the semicircles and with centers and passing through . The Apollonius circle of , and the large semicircle of the arbelos is an Archimedean circle . This circle has radius
(as it must), and center
The line perpendicular to and passing through the center of is called the Schoch line.
Now let and be two semicircles through with radii proportional to and respectively. The circle tangent to and with its center on the Schoch line is an Archimedean circle. These circles are called Woo circles.
Let be the radical axis of the great semicircle of the arbelos and . From a point on consider the tangents to the circle on diameter . The circle with center on the Schoch line and tangent to these tangents is a Woo circle (Okumura and Watanabe 2004).
An applet for investigating Woo circles and Schoch lines has been prepared by Schoch (2005).