Pitch angle of a spiral

Property of spirals

In the geometry of spirals, the pitch angle or pitch of a spiral is the angle made by the spiral with a circle through one of its points, centered at the center of the spiral. Equivalently, it is the complementary angle to the angle made by the vector from the origin to a point on the spiral, with the tangent vector of the spiral at the same point. Pitch angles are frequently used in astronomy to characterize the shape of spiral galaxies.

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