- to the
reciprocal of the radius). This
curve is also
referred to as a
clothoid or
Cornu spiral. The
behavior of
Fresnel integrals can be
illustrated by...
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Magic Mountain,
which opened in 1976. Its
success depended largely on its
clothoid-based (rather than circular) loop. The loop
became a phenomenon, and many...
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before flattening out and
speeding into the
first of its
seven slightly clothoid inversions. Each
inversion would decrease in
diameter to
maintain the lethal...
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transition spiral and the
clothoid seems to have been
first published in 1922 by
Arthur Lovat Higgins.
Since then, "
clothoid" is the most
common name given...
- ) {\displaystyle {\bigl (}S(t),C(t){\bigr )}} is the
Euler spiral or
clothoid, a
curve whose curvature varies linearly with arclength. The term Fresnel...
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modern inversion, the cork****, a year
earlier at Knott's
Berry Farm). His
clothoid loop is now
standard on many
roller coasters, as it
produces less intense...
- Fresnel's
model of near-field diffraction, is
named after him. The
spiral (or
clothoid) is also used in
geometric design of roads. The
Cornu depolarizer is also...
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which attempted circular loops, Revolution's
success was
dependent on a
clothoid-shaped
vertical loop – a
first in the industry. In 2016, the
coaster received...
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minimization or
elimination of snap is
commonly done
using a
mathematical clothoid function.
Minimizing snap
improves the
performance of
machine tools and...
