MontanaSosa
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We need to have more information.See picture. The question is, given some point P in front of the circular arc segment, what is dL/dt? where dt is the length traveled along the arc, and L is the distance from the point to the arc at t.
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This is a problem that has been solved in Mechanics (more specifically college level Dynamics), using plane geometry, trigonometry and calculus. Start reading a book in Dynamics - the topic specific to this would be the "Kinematics of particle in plane motion".The problem wasn't given to me, I was just wondering how this could be done. The expression can be general, the radius of curvature, the location of the point, etc. Variables can be defined as needed.