Cycloid Radial Curve

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
March 16, 2008

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/PlaneCurves/CycloidRadialCurve.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CycloidRadialCurve.html.

©2008 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Equation

RadialCurve[a{t-Sin[t],1-Cos[t]},{x0,y0},t]//FullSimplify

Plot

RadialCurvePlot[{t-Sin[t],1-Cos[t]},{0,0},{t,0,2Pi}]