The Flight of Insects. Conchospirals

How do insects orientate themselves when they fly in the night? The trajectory is a conchospiral winding on a cone with a vertex at the light source and cutting the light rays on the surface of the cone at a constant angle.

 

Irina Boyadzhiev —

 
教材タイプ
ワークシート
タグ
conchospiral  exploration  flight-of-insects  parametric-curves 
対象者層(年齢)
16 – 19+
言語
English
 
 
 
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