 | William Pease - Geometry - 1843 - 80 pages
...AB any length on either side as A C. From A as a centre, with AB as a radius, describe a semicircle. Divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides (say five.) 3. Draw lines through all the divisions, (minus one,) as AD, A 3 E, A 4 F. 4. From... | |
 | Ellis A. Davidson - Mechanical drawing - 1869 - 140 pages
...inscribe a regular Polygon— in this case a pentagon— in a given circle. (Fig. 55.) Fig. 55Draw the diameter AB, and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides (in this case five). From A and B, with radius AB, describe arcs cutting each other in C. From... | |
 | Washington Hudson - 1868 - 80 pages
...3, 4, etc., cutting the circle in FG, etc. — then joining these points. FIG. 39. To inscribe any polygon in a given circle. Draw the diameter AB, and divide it into the same number of parts as there are to be sides in the polygon. From A and B as centres, with the... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem.) - 1876 - 334 pages
...inscribe any regular polygon (say a pentagon) in a given circle A. General Method. 1. Draw a diameter BC, and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides (in this case Jive. Pr. 15). 2. With points B and C as centres, and the diameter BC as radius,... | |
 | Anson Kent Cross - Mechanical drawing - 1898 - 224 pages
...inscribe a regular polygon of any number of sides (in this case five) within a -given circle. Draw a diameter AB and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With A and B as centres and radius AB, describe arcs intersecting in 5. From 5 draw a straight... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 362 pages
...the pentagon. Lesson No. 9 PROBLEMS 27. To inscribe a regular polygon — in this case a pentagon — in a given circle. Draw the diameter AB and divide...into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides (in this case five). From A and B, with radius AB, describe arcs cutting each other in C. From... | |
 | School of Railway Signaling (Utica, N.Y.) - Railroads - 1910 - 446 pages
...Fig. 141. Prolong AB toward C and with A as a center and a radius equal to AB, describe a semicircle and divide it into as many equal parts -as -the polygon is to have sides. This operation may be performed by the method given in Art. 148, by completing the circle and... | |
 | Frank Roy Kepler - Mechanical drawing - 1928 - 132 pages
...inscribe a regular polygon of any number of sides (in this case seven), within a given circle.—Draw a diameter AB, and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With A and B as centers and radius AB, describe arcs intersecting at F. From F, draw a straight... | |
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Draw the diameter AB and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides (in this case five). 