Elementary Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical

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Taintor brothers & Company, 1889 - Trigonometry - 284 pages
 

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Page x - 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 182 - I. The sine of the middle part is equal to the product of the tangents of the adjacent parts.
Page 148 - Two sides of a triangle, and the angle opposite one of them, being given, to describe the triangle. Let A and B be the given sides, and C the given angle.
Page 144 - The area of a triangle is equal to the product of its three sides divided by four times the radius of its circumscribed circle.
Page 166 - That is, the sines of the sides of a spherical triangle are proportional to the sines of the opposite angles.
Page 167 - The extremities of that diameter of a sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of a circle are called the poles of that circle.
Page 23 - If 2 men start from the same place and travel in opposite directions, one at the rate of 4 miles an hour, and the other at the rate of 5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 1 hour ? At the end of 2 hours ? 5 hours?
Page 169 - C) + sin B sin C(— cos a). ... cos A = — cos B cos C + sin B sin C cos a. (3) Similarly, cos B = — cos C cos A + sin C sin A cos b, cos C = — cos A cos B + sin A sin B cos c.
Page 128 - CB : CA : : sin A : sin B. For, with A as a centre, and AD equal to the less side...

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