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Tomas of Malmsbury School,
Mark of The British School of Manilla and Herbert of
Sha Tin College, Hong Kong sent good solutions to
this problem. Well done all of you.
$P$ is a point on the circumference of a circle
radius $r$ which touches another circle radius $2r$
on the inside. The smaller circle rolls, without
slipping, around the inner circumference of the
larger circle.
The point $P$ is a fixed point on the smaller circle
which moves as the small circle moves. The point
$P_o$ is the position of $P$ when $P$ is at the point
of contact between the two circles. Consider the
general position where the point of contact is the
point $C$ but here we do not assume that $P_1$ is the
position of the point $P$.
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