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Page xi - In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 91 - From a station B at the base of a mountain its summit A is seen at an elevation of 60°; after walking one mile towards the summit up a plane making an angle of 30° with the horizon to another station C, the angle BCA is observed to be 135°.
Page 20 - ... cos a = cos b cos с + sin b sin с cos A ; (2) cos b = cos a cos с + sin a sin с cos в ; ^ A. (3) cos с = cos a cos b + sin a sin b cos C.
Page 73 - In any triangle, the square of the side opposite an acute angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, minus twice the product of one of these sides and the projection of the other side upon it.
Page 46 - By [2]. [18]. and [19]. we have. — sin (a ± ß) sin a cos ß ± cos a sin ß cos (a ± ß) cos acoeß Т sin a sin ß Divide both numerator and denominator by cos a cos |3.
Page 69 - Having measured a distance of 200 feet, in a direct horizontal line, from the bottom of a steeple, the angle of elevation of its top, taken at that distance, was found to be 47° 30'; from hence it is required to find the height of the steeple.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
| Author | Henry Nathan Wheeler |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1876 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 163 pages |
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