Recent content by Edmundb

Thank you very much indeed. That looks like the clue I need. (As you've probably gathered I'm an Engineer and not a mathematician.)

I hope this isn't too simple for the maths forum. I'm trying to find the length of the locus described by the bottom of a garage door as it is raised. It's all fairly straightforward until I have to integrate a function of the form √ (sin2θ + k cos2θ) k does not depend on θ. I tried...