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On sweeping out an area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Mark J. Cooker*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Extract

In a previous article I wrote about the remarkable theorem of Holditch, about areas generated by a sliding or sweeping motion. While thinking further on this topic I discovered some relations concerning the areas within closed curves and the lengths of the perimeters of curves.

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1999

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