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Lissajous figure
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English
right|thumb|A Lissajous figure on an oscilloscope
Lissajous curve
Etymology
en French mathematician Jules Antoine Lissajous = 1822 1880, who invented an apparatus that projected such figures onto a wall.
Noun
Lissajous figure
en mathematics A plane curve traced by a point which executes two perpendicular independent harmonic motions, the frequencies of which are in a simple ratio. en Curves
1976 30 3 The Scope proved to be a haunt for electronics assembly people from Yoyodyne. The green neon sign outside ingeniously depicted the face of an oscilloscope tube, over which flowed an ever-changing dance of Lissajous figures.
Synonyms
en Lissajous curve
Related terms
en Lissajous knot
en Lissajous orbit
Translations
plane curve
Catalan: ca corba de Lissajous f
Finnish: fi Lissajous'n kuvio
Russian: ru фигу́ра Лиссажу́ f
See also
en harmonograph