Trochoidal in A Sentence

    1

    Further, on examining the small variation in i/i, it appears that in a slightly disturbed slow precession the motion of any point of the axis consists of a rapid circular vibration superposed on the steady precession, so that the resultant path has a trochoidal character.

    2

    The epicychid when the radii of the circles are equal is the cardioid (q.v), and the corresponding trochoidal curves are limacons.

    3

    The equations to the hypocycloid and its corresponding trochoidal curves are derived from the two preceding equations by changing the sign of b.