{ "id": "1911.05576", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-11-13T16:17:16.000Z", "updated": "2019-11-13T16:17:16.000Z", "title": "Angle distribution of two random chords in the disc: A sine law", "authors": [ "Jesus Igor Heberto Barahona Torres", "Paulo Cesar Manrique-Mirón", "Erick Treviño-Aguilar" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "Motivated by models in engineering and also biology we determine in closed form the probability density function of the angle shaped by two random chords in a fixed disc. Our main result focus on the event in which the intersection locates inside the fixed disc and establishes a sine law.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-11-13T16:17:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "random chords", "sine law", "angle distribution", "probability density function", "intersection locates inside" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }