The Polar Planimeter

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Uploaded by on Mar 25, 2010

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ThePolarPlanimeter

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project contains thousands of free interactive visualizations, with new entries added daily.

The polar planimeter is a device that measures the area of a plane region by tracing out its boundary. The mechanism has two arms, a fixed anchor point, a freely moving elbow, a needle that traces the boundary of the region counterclockwise, and a wheel...

Contributed by: Bruce Atwood (Beloit College) and Stan Wagon (Macalester College)

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