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Cooling Towers and Hyperboloids

Challenging you to imagine what a cube that is spinning on two opposite corners looks like, Professor Starbird uses this exercise to introduce a proof of Brianchon's theorem, in which you discover the fascinating properties of the architectural shape common to nuclear reactor cooling towers.

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