Problem A: The Monocycle
Problem A: The Monocycle |
A monocycle is a cycle that runs on one wheel and the one we will be considering is a bit more special. It has a solid wheel colored with five different colors as shown in the figure:
The colored segments make equal angles (72o) at the center. A monocyclist rides this cycle on an grid of square tiles. The tiles have such size that moving forward from the center of one tile to that of the next one makes the wheel rotate exactly 72o around its own center. The effect is shown in the above figure. When the wheel is at the center of square 1, the midpoint of the periphery of its blue segment is in touch with the ground. But when the wheel moves forward to the center of the next square (square 2) the midpoint of its white segment touches the ground.
Some of the squares of the grid are b