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About MathWorld (1) Contribute to MathWorld Send a Message to the Team The hyperbolic spiral, also called the inverse spiral (Whittaker 1944, p. 83), originated with Pierre Varignon in 1704 and was studied by Johann Bernoulli between 1710 and 1713, as well as by Cotes in 1722 (MacTutor Archive). MathWorld Book It is also a special case of a Cotes' spiral, i.e., the path followed by a particle in a central orbit with power law

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13,191 entries when is a constant and is the specific angular momentum. Last updated: Wed Nov 6 2013 The curvature and tangential angle are given by Created, developed, and nurtured by Eric Weisstein (3) at Wolfram Research

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REFERENCES: Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 225, 1987. Cotes, R. Harmonia Mensurarum. p. 31 and 98, 1722. Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 91, 1997. Law rence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 186 and 188, 1972. Lockw ood, E. H. A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 175, 1967. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. "Hyperbolic Spiral." http://w w w -groups.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Hyperbolic.html. New ton, I. Book I, §2, Prop. IX in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1687. Whittaker, E. T. A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies: With an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies. New York: Dover, 1944.

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