Cardioid Involute

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
March 16, 2008

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/PlaneCurves/CardioidInvolute.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CardioidInvolute.html.

©2008 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Equation

cardioid={Cos[t](1+Cos[t]),Sin[t](1+Cos[t])};

Involute[cardioid,t]

Plot

<<Graphics`ImplicitPlot`
<<Graphics`Graphics`

InvolutePlot[cardioid,{t,0.,2. Pi}]