 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...is found by adding together the areas of all the triangles which form that surface. 5. If a pyramid be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a plane figure similar to the base; and these two figures will be in proportion to c&ch other as 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, »f... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...cone, and any part of the base, the section will be a triangle. 3. If a cone be cut into two parts, by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. 4. If a cone be cut by a plane passing through its two slant sides, in an oblique direction, the section... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Geometry - 1829 - 256 pages
...plane which also cuts the base, the section will be a triangle. 6. If a cone be cut into two parts, by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. 1. If a cone be cut by a plane which passes through its two slant sides in an oblique direction, the... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1829 - 210 pages
...two equal prisms by the plane CDEF. Therefore, if a solid &c. QED PROPOSITION IV. THEOREM. If a prism be cut by a plane parallel to the base the section will be equal and like to the base Let LB be a prism, of which the base is ABCDE, and a section parallel to... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1833 - 172 pages
...plane perpendicular to the base, the section will be a triangle. 6. If a cone be cut into two parts by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. 7. If a cone be cut by a plane which passes through its two slant sides in an oblique direction the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1834 - 666 pages
...plane passing through the apex, the section will be a triangle. If the cone be cut through both sides by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. If the cone be cut slanting quite through both sides, the section will be an ellipse, B a A b,fig.... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1834 - 182 pages
...plane perpendicular to the base, the section will be a triangle. 6. If a cone be cut into two parts by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. 7. If a cone be cut by a plane which passes through its two slant sides in an 'oblique direction the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical science - 1834 - 390 pages
...plane passing through the apex, the section will be a triangle. If the cone be cut through both sides by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. If the cone be cat slanting quite through both sides, the section will be an ellipse,... | |
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If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle. 
