5 marksStandard Engineering Curves
CAPE Building and Mechanical Engineering Drawing Unit 1 · 2016 · Paper 2 · Question 1(a)
Figure 1 shows a framework for point P moving such that its distance from the circumference of two circles (radii 20 mm and 15 mm, centres O1 and O2 spaced 60 mm apart) and from their centres is in the ratio 2:3.
Plot the locus of the point P.
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