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Cycloidal Gears
A cycloidal gear can be drawn as an alternating sequence of hypocycloid and epicycloid arcs. This Demonstration shows the generating circles rolling along the pitch circle while generating the gear profile.
Contributed by:
Erik Mahieu
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Epicycloid
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)
Hypocycloid
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Wolfram
MathWorld
)
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Erik Mahieu
"
Cycloidal Gears
"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CycloidalGears/
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Published: March 21, 2013
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