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Page 13 - The sum of two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side, and their difference is less than the third side.
Page 71 - 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 71 - 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 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°.
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Page 5 - I. The sine of the middle part is equal to the product of the tangents of the adjacent parts.
Page 75 - Formulas for the area of a triangle, in terms of two sides and the included angle ; in terms of one side and the adjacent angles; and in terms of s and the three sides.
Page 20 - A cos 6 = cos a cos c + sin a sin c cos B cos c = cos a cos 6 + sin a sin 6 cos C Law of Cosines for Angles cos A = — cos B...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
| Author | Henry Nathan Wheeler |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1876 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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