Lissajous may refer to
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Jules Antoine Lissajous
Jules Antoine Lissajous (; 4 March 1822 in Versailles – 24 June 1880 in Plombières-les-Dijon) was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that cr ...
(1822–1880), French mathematician
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Lissajous curve
A Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve , is the graph of a system of parametric equations
: x=A\sin(at+\delta),\quad y=B\sin(bt),
which describe the superposition of two perpendicular oscillations in x and y dire ...
(or figure, or spiral), a mathematical figure showing a type of harmonic motion
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Lissajous knot
In knot theory, a Lissajous knot is a knot defined by parametric equations of the form
:x = \cos(n_x t + \phi_x),\qquad y = \cos(n_y t + \phi_y), \qquad z = \cos(n_z t + \phi_z),
where n_x, n_y, and n_z are integers and the phase shifts \phi_ ...
, in knot theory
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Lissajous orbit
In orbital mechanics, a Lissajous orbit (), named after Jules Antoine Lissajous, is a quasi-periodic orbital trajectory that an object can follow around a Lagrangian point of a three-body system without requiring any propulsion. Lyapunov orbits ...
, an orbital trajectory resembling a Lissajous curve
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