Elementary Trigonometry: With a Collection of Examples

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Deighton, Bell, and Company, 1862 - Trigonometry - 184 pages
 

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Page 64 - The logarithm of the product of two numbers is equal to the sum of the logarithms of the numbers.
Page 1 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Page 175 - ... 66. Construct an equilateral triangle, having given the length of the perpendicular drawn from one of the angles on the opposite side. 67. Having given the straight lines which bisect the angles at the base of an equilateral triangle, determine a side of the triangle. 68. Having given two sides and an angle of a triangle, construct the triangle, distinguishing the different cases. 69. Having given the base of a triangle, the difference...
Page 37 - B + cos A . sin B tan(A + B)= ) , (- = — . --. v cos (A + B) cos A . cos B — sin A . sin B and dividing numerator and denominator by cos A . cos B, sin A sin B cos A "'"cos B tan A + tan B 1 tan A.
Page 175 - Three circles are described, each of which touches one side of a triangle ABC, and the other two sides produced. If D be the point of contact of the side BC, E that of AC, and F that of AB, shew that AE is equal to BD, BF to CE, and CD to AF.
Page 5 - Now the angle at the centre of a circle which is subtended by an arc equal to the radius equals — = 57°. 29578, it so that the true length of a curve is given by the equation t IR L — ~ — — 57.2958 — 57.2958...
Page 113 - ... would be subtended at the centre of the first by an arc equal to the radius of the second. 9. If a be the arc which measures the complement of an angle to radius r, find the arc which measures the supplement of the same angle to radius r'.
Page 159 - It is required to bisect any triangle (1) bya line drawn parallel, (2) by a line drawn perpendicular, to the base. 43. To divide a given triangle into two parts, having a given ratio to one another, by a straight line drawn parallel to one of its...

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