74 Lectures on Scientific Subjects
illustrate this fact as simply as possible let us restrict at-
tention to the symmetric case, F = F(r), when, as we have
seen, the distribution function must also be symmetric,
∕=∕ω∙
If we consider two circles Ca and Ci of radius a, b with
a>⅛>0, concentric with the origin it is clear that the ratio
of the length of any chord of Ca to the length of the part
of the chord within Ci is at least a to b. It follows that the
amount of lead 2πffF(r, θ')rdrdθ within Ca is at least a∣b
times that within Ci, so that we must have
-[ F(r)rdr≥τ[ F(r)rdr (a>b),
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if the drawing is to be possible without rectilinear erasures.
This conclusion may of course also be derived directly from
the fundamental equation (1) above, under the assumption
/(ʃ, φ) ≥0, the proof involving nothing more than an applica-
tion of the geometric fact about chords stated above.
APPENDED NOTE
To treat the general case we start from the equations
(1) Hm(r) =fo2πhm(r sin u)e'm,du (m =0, 1, 2, ∙ ∙ ∙)
where the Hm(r) are assumed to be continuous for r>0 and
vanish with r to the (m — l)st order. These equations may
be written
(2) Hm(r) =f* hm(r sin u) (cos и — i sin u)e''m''ιudu
= —ɪɪ f flm(,-ι) (r sin u')e^il∙m^^,,du
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d Γ f2τ , . '
— i-y sin u')e'if-m~'',udu ,
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where we define
(3) hm~∙'(s) = f°hm(s)ds, hmM(s) = f'hm^(s)ds, ∙ ∙ ∙