 A right circular cone or cone of revolution is a cone whose axis is perpendicular to the base. It may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of the perpendicular sides as an axis.  Mathematics - Page 56by American School (Chicago, Ill.) - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - Geometry - 1883 - 326 pages
...Right Cone > is one in which the axis is perpendicular to the base. We may conceive a right cone to be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its perpendicular sides. 12. The Slant Height of a right cone is any position of the generatrix—the... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1894 - 172 pages
...vertex to the centre of the base. 567. A right circular cone is called a cone of revolution, for ifc may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its legs as an axis. 568. Similar cones of revolution are cones generated by the revolution of similar... | |
 | Andrew Wheeler Phillips, Irving Fisher - Geometry - 1896 - 570 pages
...circular cone whose axis is perpendicular to its base. PROPOSITION VII. THEOREM 793. A right circular cone may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its sides as an axis. The proof is left to the student. 7.94. Def. — From its mode of generation... | |
 | Andrew Wheeler Phillips, Irving Fisher - Geometry - 1896 - 574 pages
...circular cone whose axis is perpendicular to its base. PROPOSITION VII. THEOREM 793. A right circular cone may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its sides as an axis. The proof is left to the student. 794. Def. — From its mode of generation a... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry, Solid - 1899 - 246 pages
...whose axis is perpendicular to its base. A right circular cone is called a cone of revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its legs as an axis. The hypotenuse of the revolving triangle in any position is an element of the... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1899 - 498 pages
...whose axis is perpendicular to its base. A right circular cone is called a cone of revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its legs as an axis. The hypotenuse of the revolving triangle in any position is an element of the... | |
 | William James Milne - Geometry - 1899 - 404 pages
...base is called an Oblique Cone. 614. A right circular cone is called a Cone of Revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its perpendicular sides. All the elements of a cone of revolution are equal, and any one of them is... | |
 | William Taylor Campbell - Geometry - 1899 - 268 pages
...forms a cylinder whose height is CD, and whose bases are circles with radii equal to BD. A cone is generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of the sides of the right angle. Thus the triangle ACB, revolving about BC as an axis, forms a cone whose height... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1899 - 180 pages
...contains one, and only one, element of the lateral surface. PROP. V. THEOREM. 554. A right circular cone may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its legs as an axis. Given G the rt. Z of vt. A ABC. To Prove the solid generated by the revolution... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Algebra - 1902 - 80 pages
...of a cone is any straight line from the vertex to the perimeter of the base. 272. A circular cone is a cone whose base is a circle. 273. A right circular...area of a cone is found in the same way as in the case of a pyramid. Multiply the perimeter of the base by one-half the slant height. Example. The base... | |
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