College Physics ›› 2016, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 22-24.

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Analysis of beetle and ring problem

LI Li1,ZHANG Yin2   

  1. 1. ChongqingQinghua High School,Chongqing 400054,China; 2. College of Mathematics and Information Science,Zhengzhou University of Light Industry,Zhengzhou,Henan 450002,China
  • Received:2015-10-18 Revised:2015-11-22 Online:2016-08-20 Published:2016-08-20

Abstract:  The“beetle and ring problem”is analyzed tersely and intuitively by mass-point set mechanics. The equations of beetle and marked point’s track are solved. Then the movement trajectories with different quality ratio are plotted and trajectory of latter is hypocycloid.

Key words: beetle and ring problem, marked point, hypocycloid