Book:E.H. Lockwood/A Book of Curves

Subject Matter

 * Definition:Geometry

Contents

 * Preface
 * Historical Introduction
 * Notation


 * PART 1. SPECIAL CURVES


 * 1 The Parabola
 * 2 The Ellipse
 * 3 The Hyperbola
 * 4 The Cardioid
 * 5 The Limaçon
 * 6 The Astroid
 * 7 The Nephroid
 * 8 The Deltoid
 * 9 The Cycloid
 * 10 The Right Strophoid
 * 11 The Equiangular Spiral
 * 12 The Lemniscate of Bernoulli
 * 13 The Tractrix and Catenary


 * PART II. WAYS OF FINDING NEW CURVES
 * 14 Conchoids
 * 15 Cissoids
 * 16 Strophoids
 * 17 Roulettes
 * 18 Pedal Curves
 * 19 Negative Pedals
 * 20 Glissettes
 * 21 Evolutes and Involute
 * 22 Spirals
 * 23 Inversion
 * 24 Caustic Curves
 * 25 Bipolar Coordinates


 * FURTHER READING
 * GLOSSARY
 * INDEX OF NAMES
 * INDEX OF SUBJECTS