Centroid of triangles associated with a curve
Differential Geometry
2015-02-05 v1
Abstract
Archimedes showed that the area between a parabola and any chord on the parabola is four thirds of the area of triangle , where P is the point on the parabola at which the tangent is parallel to the chord . Recently, this property of parabolas was proved to be a characteristic property of parabolas. With the aid of this characterization of parabolas, using centroid of triangles associated with a curve we present two conditions which are necessary and sufficient for a strictly locally convex curve in the plane to be a parabola.
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@article{arxiv.1502.01205,
title = {Centroid of triangles associated with a curve},
author = {Dong-Soo Kim and Dong Seo Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01205},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1502.00188