Nautilus shell- an equiangular spiral

This applet shows the that angle (β) between the tangent to the Nautilus shell curve and the radius vector, is always 79.5 °. Move point P to change the point on the curve.

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Don Cohen & Lori Johnson Morse, Created with GeoGebra