This allows us to lay out the arc using a large compass. The arc length is then given by. A circle is 360 all the way around.
In this section we use definite integrals to find the arc length of a curve.
The circumference can be found by the formula C pd when we know the diameter and C 2pr when we know the radius as we do here. Also this ds notation will be a nice notation for the next section as well. Then if you multiply the length all the way around the circle the circles circumference by that fraction you get the length along the arc. To calculate the radius.