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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and Surveying G. A. (George Albert) 1835-1 Wentworth No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 109 - Sines that the bisector of an angle of a triangle divides the opposite side into parts proportional to the adjacent sides.
Page 98 - I sin y \2 / \2 / = sin x cos y + cos x sin y, sin (a; — y) = sin (x + (— y)) = sin a; cos (— y) + cos a; sin (— y) = sin x cos y — cos x sin y, tan (x + y) = sin (x + y) sin x cos y + cos x...
Page 52 - The logarithm of a quotient is equal to the logarithm of the dividend minus the logarithm of the divisor.
Page 44 - If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number.
Page 50 - The logarithm of a product is equal to the sum of the logarithms of its factors.
Page 57 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.
Page 116 - In any obtuse triangle, the square of the side opposite the obtuse angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other...
Page 112 - 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 128 - Prove that the area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of the base, the diagonal, and the sine of the angle included by them.
Page 151 - Equation 3, we see that an angle of 1 rad is the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius of the circle (see Figure 2).