Circle revolving around circle
Source: 2014 aime i #10
March 14, 2014
trigonometryrotationgeometrygeometric transformationtrapezoidnumber theoryrelatively prime
Problem Statement
A disk with radius is externally tangent to a disk with radius . Let be the point where the disks are tangent, be the center of the smaller disk, and be the center of the larger disk. While the larger disk remains fixed, the smaller disk is allowed to roll along the outside of the larger disk until the smaller disk has turned through an angle of . That is, if the center of the smaller disk has moved to the point , and the point on the smaller disk that began at has now moved to point , then is parallel to . Then , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .