Rolling of Equal Parabolas
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Description: Illustration of the rolling of equal parabolas. "The two parabolas may be considered as two ellipses with one focus of each removed to infinity."
Source: Peter Schwamb, S.B. And Allyne L. Merrill, S.B. Elements Of Mechanism (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1905) 37
Keywords: rolling surface, surfaces, plane, motion, motions, translation, rotation, parabola
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