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Cercles d'Archimède
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Archimedean circle
In geometry, an Archimedean circle is any circle constructed from an arbelos that has the same radius as each of Archimedes' twin circles. If the arbelos is normed such that the diameter of its outer (largest) half circle has a length of 1 and r denotes the radiius of any of the inner half circles, then the radius ρ of such an Archimedean circle is given by There are over fifty different known ways to construct Archimedean circles. An Archimedean circle was first constructed by Archimedes in his Book of Lemmas.
Semicircle
In mathematics (and more specifically geometry), a semicircle is a one-dimensional locus of points that forms half of a circle. It is a circular arc that measures 180° (equivalently, pi radians, or a half-turn). It has only one line of symmetry (reflection symmetry). In non-technical usage, the term "semicircle" is sometimes used to refer to either a closed curve that also includes the diameter segment from one end of the arc to the other or to the half-disk, which is a two-dimensional geometric region that further includes all the interior points.
Arbelos
L'arbelos (ou tricercle de Mohr, du nom du mathématicien danois Georg Mohr) est une figure géométrique plane étudiée, entre autres, par Archimède (-287 - -212, Syracuse). Le terme « arbelos » signifie couteau du savetier. Soit un demi-cercle de diamètre BC. Soit A un point quelconque de ce diamètre. Tracer le demi-cercle de diamètre BA intérieur. Tracer le demi-cercle de diamètre AC intérieur. Considérer la surface intérieure obtenue : c'est une lame d'arbelos.
Woo circles
In geometry, the Woo circles, introduced by Peter Y. Woo, are a set of infinitely many Archimedean circles. Form an arbelos with the two inner semicircles tangent at point C. Let m denote any nonnegative real number. Draw two circles, with radii m times the radii of the smaller two arbelos semicircles, centered on the arbelos ground line, also tangent to each other at point C and with radius m times the radius of the corresponding small arbelos arc. Any circle centered on the Schoch line and externally tangent to the circles is a Woo circle.