The Elements of Plane Trigonometry

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J. Weals, 1854 - Plane trigonometry - 119 pages
 

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Page 95 - From a window near the bottom of a house, which seemed to be on a level with the bottom of a steeple, I took the angle of elevation of the top of the steeple, equal to 40° ; then from another window, 18 feet directly above the former, the like angle was 37° 30'.
Page 84 - The area of a regular inscribed hexagon is a mean proportional between the areas of the inscribed and circumscribed equilateral triangles.
Page 96 - Wanting to know my distance from an- inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river ; and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances ; from each of two stations, A and B, which were taken at 500 yards asunder, I measured in a direct line from the object 0 100 yards, viz. AC and BD each equal to 100 yards ; also the diagonal AD measured 550 yards, and the diagonal BC 560.
Page 53 - It depends on the principle, that the difference of the squares of two quantities is equal to the product of the sum and difference of the quantities.
Page 65 - If from one of the angles of a rectangle a perpendicular be drawn to its diagonal, and from, the point of their intersection lines be drawn perpendicular to the sides which contain the opposite angle...
Page 85 - The square on the side of a regular pentagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the sum of the squares on the sides of the regular hexagon and decagon inscribed in the same circle.
Page 91 - To THEIR DIFFERENCE ; - So IS THE TANGENT OF HALF THE SUM OF THE OPPOSITE ANGLES; To THE TANGENT OF HALF THEIR DIFFERENCE.
Page 95 - Being on a horizontal plane, and wanting to know the height of a tower placed on the top of an inaccessible hill : I took the angle of elevation of the top of the hill 40°, and of the top of the tower 51°; then measuring in a line directly from it to the distance of 200 feet farther, I found the angle at the top of the tower to be 33
Page 99 - The hypotenuse AB of a right-angled triangle ABC is trisected in the points D, E; prove that if CD, CE be joined, the sum of the squares on the sides of the triangle CDE is equal to two-thirds of the square on AB.
Page 114 - CE is equal to the difference of the segments of the base made by the perpendicular.

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