Geometry, particle along a circle

Geometry, particle along a circle

Postby Guest » Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:11 am

Hi to all,
I'm stuck with this problem, can anyone help please?
Looking at the attached drawing.

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My particle is at point Entry (0,0), is trying to reach the opint Destination (range,0) by first riding along the circle centred in (curvature * Sin(Brg), -curvature *Cos(Brg)).
It exits at point Exit, and then straight lines to point Destination.
I managed to compute distCtrDest, and thus distExit and angleCtrDestEx.
I am now trying to figure out the angle "angeEntryCtrExit".
Any ideas? Thank you in adavnce!
Charlie
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Re: Geometry, particle along a circle

Postby Guest » Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:21 pm

By considering the triangle formed from the points entry-destination-centre you can work out the angle at 'destination' of that triangle.
Now you can work out the angle entry-destination-exit.
Consider the triangle formed by entry-destination-exit, to work out the length entry-exit.
Consider the triangle entry-exit-centre to work out the angle at centre.

Hope this helped,

R. Baber.
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