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05-11-2006, 10:04 AM
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I'm thinking that I'll start a write up on the math, science, & history behind rotary engines. I'll just write a little bit for now, and update it further when I get home. You guys add as much as you can / correct anything I mess up, and hopefully it will get stickied.
The Reuleaux Triangle:
The Reuleaux Triangle is the heart and soul of the roatary engine.
It's a polygon that is a curve of constant width, a curve where all the diameters are the same length.
It's named after Franz Reuleaux, a 19th century German engineer.
To quote wikipedia - " The Reuleaux triangle is the simplest nontrivial example of a curve of constant width - a curve in which the distance between two opposite parallel tangent lines to its boundary is the same, regardless of the direction of those two parallel lines. ( A Trivial example would be the circle )
The Reuleaux Triangle:
The Reuleaux Triangle is the heart and soul of the roatary engine.
It's a polygon that is a curve of constant width, a curve where all the diameters are the same length.
It's named after Franz Reuleaux, a 19th century German engineer.
To quote wikipedia - " The Reuleaux triangle is the simplest nontrivial example of a curve of constant width - a curve in which the distance between two opposite parallel tangent lines to its boundary is the same, regardless of the direction of those two parallel lines. ( A Trivial example would be the circle )
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