Tractrix Radial Curve

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
March 16, 2008

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

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

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

Equation

FullSimplify[RadialCurve[a{t-Tanh[t],Sech[t]},{x0,y0},t]]

Plot

RadialCurvePlot[{t-Tanh[t],Sech[t]},{0,0},{t,-2,2}]