How can you find the length of the arc formed by two points on a circle? Is there any function that draws a perfect semi-circle so you can use integrals to find the value of the arc or is there a simpler solution?
Finding arc length
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Do you know the angle formed by those two points and the center of the circle? If so, and that angle is $\theta$ in radians, and the radius of the circle is $r$, then the arc length is $ s = r \theta.$
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If you don't know $\theta$, you can find it by taking the dot product of the vectors from the center to each point. More on the dot product here.
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0Yes, thank you! :) – 2011-04-09