Schoch line

The Schoch line (cyan) passes through the point A1.

In geometry, the Schoch line is a line defined from an arbelos and named by Peter Woo after Thomas Schoch, who had studied it in conjunction with the Schoch circles.

Construction

An arbelos is a shape bounded by three mutually-tangent semicircular arcs with collinear endpoints, with the two smaller arcs nested inside the larger one; let the endpoints of these three arcs be (in order along the line containing them) A, B, and C. Let K1 and K2 be two more arcs, centered at A and C, respectively, with radii AB and CB, so that these two arcs are tangent at B; let K3 be the largest of the three arcs of the arbelos. A circle, with the center A1, is then created tangent to the arcs K1,K2, and K3. This circle is congruent with Archimedes' twin circles, making it an Archimedean circle; it is one of the Schoch circles. The Schoch line is perpendicular to the line AC and passes through the point A1. It is also the location of the centers of infinitely many Archimedean circles, e.g. the Woo circles.[1]

Radius and center of A1

If r = AB/AC, and AC = 1, then the radius of A1 is

and the center is

[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Dodge, Clayton W.; Schoch, Thomas; Woo, Peter Y.; Yiu, Paul (1999), "Those ubiquitous Archimedean circles" (PDF), Mathematics Magazine, 72 (3): 202–213, doi:10.2307/2690883, MR 1706441.

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