The accompanying figure shows a person pulling a boat by holding a rope of length a attached to the bow and walking along the edge of a dock. If we assume that the rope is always tangent to the curve traced by the bow of the boat, then this curve, which is called a tractrix, has the property that the segment of the tangent line between the curve and the
(a) Show that to move the bow of the boat to a point
from the origin.
(b) If the rope has a length of
(c) Find the distance traveled by the bow along the tractrix as it moves from its initial position to the point where it is
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