The problem we study in this paper originated from a simple high school math competition (AMC 12) question on a geometric probability model: “A frog makes 3 jumps, each exactly 1 meter long. The directions of the jumps are chosen independently at random. What is the probability that the frog’s final position is no more than 1 meter from its starting position?” [1] From here, we changed the number of jumps the frog made, the length of each jump and the dimensions of the space. Using recursion, we obtained the recursive formula of the probability of a frog landing x meters within its original spot after jumping m 1-meter jumps in an N -dimension space by integrating the probability distribution of the former step. We also suggested a concept “the intensity of the probability field” to describe the relative probability of each spot and gave an expression of the intensity of each spot of a 2-dimensional space when the frog makes m jumps.

Motivated by Gutkin curves arising in capillary floating and billiard ball problem, we introduce a new projection function for convex plane curves, and study the curves when the defined projection function is constant. These curves can be regarded as a generalization of curves with constant width. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such curves, and provide an explicit expression for the radius of curvature. Properties of our curves and their relation to Gutkin curves are also discussed. Finally, we construct and exhibit some curves with constant projection function.

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