Applications: Two Geometry Applications
Fitting circles and straight lines together smoothly has been a standard problem in geometry since the time of Euclid. Last summer while working as a consultant for a machine-design company that manufactures precision components for projectile textile looms, I was asked to solve the two nonstandard geometry problems that follow. The problems arose in the design of a shuttle returner for a loom and required the construction of two circles that were to interface smoothly with another circle and two straight lines. In figure 1 is shown the end of the shuttle returner with the desired circles indicated at A and B.
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