Гиперболалық спираль және оның асимптотасы

Spiral asymptotic to a line

A hyperbolic spiral is a type of spiral with a pitch angle that increases with distance from its center, unlike the constant angles of logarithmic spirals or decreasing angles of Archimedean spirals. As this curve widens, it approaches an asymptotic line. It can be found in the view up a spiral staircase and the starting arrangement of certain footraces, and is used to model spiral galaxies and architectural volutes. As a plane curve, a hyperbolic spiral can be described in polar coordinates by the equation

for an arbitrary choice of the scale factor

Because of the reciprocal relation between and it is also called a reciprocal spiral. The same relation between Cartesian coordinates would describe a hyperbola, and the hyperbolic spiral was first discovered by applying the equation of a hyperbola to polar coordinates. Hyperbolic spirals can also be generated as the inverse curves of Archimedean spirals, or as the central projections of helixes. Hyperbolic spirals are patterns in the Euclidean plane, and should not be confused with other kinds of spirals drawn in the hyperbolic plane. In cases where the name of these spirals might be ambiguous, their alternative name, reciprocal spirals, can be used instead.

Pierre Varignon first studied the hyperbolic spiral in 1704, as an example of the polar curve obtained from another curve (in this case the hyperbola) by reinterpreting the Cartesian coordinates of points on the given curve as polar coordinates of points on the polar curve. Varignon and later James Clerk Maxwell were interested in the roulettes obtained by tracing a point on this curve as it rolls along another curve; for instance, when a hyperbolic spiral rolls along a straight line, its center traces out a tractrix. Johann Bernoulli and Roger Cotes also wrote about this curve, in connection with Isaac Newton's discovery that bodies that follow conic section trajectories must be subject to an inverse square law, such as the one in Newton's law of universal gravitation. Newton asserted that the reverse was true: that conic sections were the only trajectories possible under an inverse square law. Bernoulli criticized this step, observing that in the case of an inverse cube law, multiple trajectories were possible, including both a logarithmic spiral (whose connection to the inverse cube law was already observed by Newton) and a hyperbolic spiral. Cotes found a family of spirals, the Cotes's spirals, including the logarithmic and hyperbolic spirals, that all required an inverse cube law. By 1720, Newton had resolved the controversy by proving that inverse square laws always produce conic section trajectories. For a hyperbolic spiral with equation , a circular arc centered at the origin, continuing clockwise for length from any of its points, will end on the Because of this equal length property, the starting marks of 200m and 400m footraces are placed in staggered positions along a hyperbolic spiral. This ensures that the runners, restricted to their concentric lanes, all have equal length paths to the finish line. For longer races where runners move to the inside lane after the start, a different spiral (the involute of a circle) is used instead. The increasing pitch angle of the hyperbolic spiral, as a function of distance from its center, has led to the use of these spirals to model the shapes of some spiral galaxies, which in some cases have a similarly increasing pitch angle. However, this model does not provide a good fit to the shapes of all spiral galaxies. In architecture, it has been suggested that hyperbolic spirals are a good match for the design of volutes from columns of the Corinthian order. It also describes the perspective view up the axis of a spiral staircase or other helical structure. Along with the Archimedean and logarithmic spiral, the hyperbolic spiral has been used in psychological experiments on the perception of rotation.

Circle inversion through the unit circle is a transformation of the plane that, in polar coordinates, maps the point (excluding the origin) to and vice versa. The image of an Archimedean spiral under this transformation (its inverse curve) is the hyperbolic spiral with

From vector calculus in polar coordinates one gets the formula for the pitch angle between the tangent of any curve and the tangent of its corresponding polar circle. For the hyperbolic spiral the pitch angle is