Explanatory MensurationLongmans, Green and Company, 1879 - 188 pages |
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ABCD angle Area of base avoirdupois cask centre chains chord of half circle circular ends circumference cistern cone crown 8vo cube cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches curved surface cylinder depth diagonal dimensions divide ellipse equal Example 1.-Find Example 2.-The figure find its volume find the area find the diameter find the height find the length Find the number Find the volume Formulæ frustum gallons girt given gonal Head Master Hiley hypothenuse Latin Lists of School-Books mean breadth measures Mensuration Note 1.-To find number of cubic oblique parallel sides parallelogram parallelopiped perimeter perpendicular height plane poles post 8vo prism prismoid Prob pyramid radii radius rectangle rectangular rhombus right-angled triangle roods Rule School sector segment shape side faces slant height small 8vo solid sphere square root straight line thick trapezium trapezoids vessel wedge whole surface zoid
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Page 2 - 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 8 - We wish to prove that The three angles of any triangle are equal to two right angles. Let...
Page 70 - The circumference of a circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into 60 seconds.
Page 31 - From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half -sum and the three remainders together; the square root of the product is the area.
Page 128 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 57 - To find the area of a circle, multiply the square of the diameter by .7854.
Page 5 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center, Fig.
Page 2 - But when a straight line standing upon another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is a right angle : (Ю.
Page 41 - Multiply the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 71 - Or, from 8 times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc, and $ of the remainder will be the length of the arc, nearly.