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Elements of Geometry, Theoretical and Practical: Including Constructions of ... - Page 185
by Eugenius Nulty - 1836 - 220 pages
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The complete measurer: or, The whole art of measuring, containing the ...

Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...BD, the base of the triangle, is a chord, or diameter, of the circular base AB c » of the cone. 4. If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be 11 circle. Thus, if the cone ABE, be cut by a plane parallel to AB, the section will be a circle,...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 1

Physics - 1829 - 522 pages
...science which treats of the proper, ties of certain curve» that arc formed by 1> the cutting of a cone. If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section (or flat surface of the cut) will be a circle; and if it be cut by a plane passing through the vertex,...
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Elements of Geometry: With Practical Applications, for the Use of Schools

Timothy Walker - Geometry - 1829 - 156 pages
...the prism. We shall divide the reasoning into four distinct propositions. DEM. 1. — If a pyramid be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section is a polygon similar to the base. Let GHIKL (fig. 93) be a section F 93 parallel to the base BCDE F. We...
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Solid and Spherical Geometry and Conic Sections: Being a Treatise on the ...

A. Bell - Conic sections - 1837 - 180 pages
...the solids between each of them and the base, are cylinders. • COR. 3. — If a cone or cylinder be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section is a circle. COR. 4. — Any plane touching the axis of a cone or cylinder, cuts every parallel section in its diameter....
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A complete treatise on practical land-surveying

Thomas Holliday - Surveying - 1838 - 404 pages
...through the vertex A of the cone, to any part of the base, the section will be a triangle, as ABC. 3. If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle, as D—E. 4. If a cone be cut by a plane which passes through its two slant sides...
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First Lessons in Geometry: With Practical Applications in Mensuration, and ...

Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 262 pages
...by one-third of the altitude. Thus, the solidity of the cone C—AED is equal to base Q.BEsT. — 7. If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, what will the section be 1 If the upper part be taken away what is the lower part called 1 8. What...
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Elements of Conic Sections

Isaac Wilber Jackson - Conic sections - 1845 - 116 pages
...denominated the upper and lower nappes of the cone respectively. PROPOSITION I. THEOREM. If a conic surface be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section is the circumference of a circle having its centre in the axis. Let ACBD (Fig. 29) be the base, S the...
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Elements of Drawing and Mensuration Applied to the Mechanic Arts: A Book for ...

Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1846 - 254 pages
...or altitude of the cone, and the point C the vertex of the cone. 37- What is the frustum of a cone ? If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. Thus, the section FKHI is a circle. If from the cone S — CDB, the cone S — FKH...
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An elementary course of mathematics, Volume 2

Samuel Hunter Christie - 1847 - 172 pages
...as the cubes of the diameters of their bases, or as the cubes of their altitudes. PROP. LXXI. THEOR. If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle; and this section and the base will be to one another in the duplicate ratio of their...
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 47

Technology - 1847 - 648 pages
...side of the the prism or pyramid ; or again in the pyramid beyond the vertex, as PROP. V " cylinder or cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle ; and in the cylinder, this circle will be equal to the base. (1.) Let ABC be the...
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