Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-28-1999
Abstract
While on sabbatical in Dar es Salaam in 1997–98, I was tasked to be the department’s seminar director and discovered that a dearth of speakers roam about in east Africa; so I opted to set up a lecture tour for myself to include Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana as well as Tanzania—and spoke about the envelope of curves generated by a series of line segments obtained when two runners attached by an ideal bungee cord (the line segments) proceed about a circular track. Herein we describe life in east Africa and show that those envelopes are trochoids.
Recommended Citation
Simoson, Andrew, "Tracking the Trochoid on Safari" (1999). ACMS Conference Proceedings 1999. 7.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/acms-1999/7
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