Pitch of Helix/Examples

Examples of Pitch of Helix

Circular Helix

Consider the circular helix $\HH$ whose parametric equation is given as:

$\begin{cases}

x & = a \cos t \\ y & = a \sin t \\ z & = b t \\ \end{cases}$

The pitch of $\HH$ is $\dfrac {2 \pi} b$.