The discussion centers on the eccentricity of a compressed circular ring, specifically addressing whether an equation exists to describe this eccentricity after a section of the ring is cut out and the ring is compressed. The consensus is that eccentricity is a property defined for circles and ellipses, and the modified shape resulting from the described process does not fit these definitions. Therefore, no applicable equation for eccentricity exists in this context.
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g0ggs123 said:If an initially circular ring is made out of round by cutting out a section of the ring (delta g) and compressing the ring till the gap is approx zero is there an equation to describe the eccentricity of the circle?
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