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GXWeb Curve Construction Collection

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Learn How: Create Your Own GXWeb Tasks (like this one!)

Learn How 2: Take GXWeb to the Next Level

 

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Mechanisms for Constructing Plane Curves

This is a sampler of a much more extensive YouTube PlayList by Phil Todd of Saltire Software, creator of such wonderful mathematics learning and exploration tools as Geometry Expressions, Mathematical Illustrations and the amazing, free browser-based GXWeb, which is the focus here.

Phil uses GXWeb to construct curves as outlined in the book, Mechanisms for the Construction of Plane Curves by I. I. Artobolevskii

Enveloped Parabola ⇒ GXWeb Ellipse ⇒ GXWeb Hyperbola ⇒ Cissoid of Diocles ⇒ GXWeb Strophoid ⇒ A Simpler Strophoid ⇒ Constructing the Oblique Strophoid ⇒ GXWeb Cardioid ⇒ Folium of Descartes ⇒ Trifolium ⇒ Limaçon of Pascal ⇒ Conchoid of Nicomedes ⇒ Lemniscate of Bernoulli ⇒ Pedal Curves ⇒ Lemniscatoid ⇒ Witch of Agnesi ⇒

Try some of these yourself with the tools below...

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Construct your own Model with GXWeb

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WolframAlpha: CAS+

The powerful Wolfram Alpha online CAS engine will answer almost anything you care to ask - within reason! From the continued fraction of pi to Solve x^2=x+1 to the population of Australia!

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