 The area of a segment is found by subtracting the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii to its end points from the area of the sector formed by the two radii and the arc.  Practical Mathematics - Page 120by John Perry - 1899 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Walkingame - 1833 - 204 pages
...Problem 11. To find the area of a circular Segment. RULE 1. Find the area of the sector ; and also the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii of the sector : their difference, when the segment is less than a semicircle, or their sum, when it... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...find the area of a segment of a circle ; find the area of the sector having the same arc, then find the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii of the sector ; if the greater be<jment is required, take the sum of their areas ; if the lesser segment... | |
 | Clarence E. Paddock, Edward Ellsworth Holton - Arithmetic - 1920 - 250 pages
...of 3.1416, and extract the square root of the result. The area of a segment is found by subtracting the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii from the area of the sector formed by the arc and two radii. (Fig. 47.) <'IG. 47. FIG. 48. The area... | |
 | 1903 - 886 pages
...29. Prop. XXVII. — The area of a segment is equal to the area of a sector with the same arc, minus the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii. (In Fig. 29 the segment formed by the arc act and the chord ab is equal to the area of the sector formed... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1990 - 288 pages
...angle subtended at the centre of a circle of radius 19-87 cm. by a chord of length 5-34 cm. Find also the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the two radii drawn to its ends. 7. An aircraft glides at 15° with an airspeed of 118 knots. Find, in feet, how... | |
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