A Course of Mathematics: In Two Volumes. Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy, Volume 1Longman, Orme & Company, 1841 - Mathematics |
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... circle is a figure lying wholly upon a plane super- ficies , and is composed of one curved line ( called the circum ... circle . The circumference itself is often called a circle , and also sometimes the periphery . 16. The radius of a ...
... circle is a figure lying wholly upon a plane super- ficies , and is composed of one curved line ( called the circum ... circle . The circumference itself is often called a circle , and also sometimes the periphery . 16. The radius of a ...
Page 292
... circle bounded by an arc and its chord . 21. A semicircle is half the circle , or a segment cut off by a diameter . The half circumference is sometimes called the Semicircle . 22. A sector is any part of a circle which is bounded by an ...
... circle bounded by an arc and its chord . 21. A semicircle is half the circle , or a segment cut off by a diameter . The half circumference is sometimes called the Semicircle . 22. A sector is any part of a circle which is bounded by an ...
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... circle is tangential , or is a tangent to a circle , or other curve , when it touches it , without cutting , although both are produced . 56. The height or altitude of a figure is a perpendicular let fall from an angle , or its vertex ...
... circle is tangential , or is a tangent to a circle , or other curve , when it touches it , without cutting , although both are produced . 56. The height or altitude of a figure is a perpendicular let fall from an angle , or its vertex ...
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... circle , or the circle circumscribes it , when all the angular points of the figure are in the circumference of the circle . 67. A right - lined figure circumscribes a circle , or the circle is inscribed in it , when all the sides of ...
... circle , or the circle circumscribes it , when all the angular points of the figure are in the circumference of the circle . 67. A right - lined figure circumscribes a circle , or the circle is inscribed in it , when all the sides of ...
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... circle . THEOREM XLII . If more than two equal lines can be drawn from any point within a circle to the circumference , that point will be the centre . LET ABC be a circle , and D a point within it : then if any three lines , DA , DB ...
... circle . THEOREM XLII . If more than two equal lines can be drawn from any point within a circle to the circumference , that point will be the centre . LET ABC be a circle , and D a point within it : then if any three lines , DA , DB ...
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ABCD algebraic altitude arithmetical arithmetical progression base bisect breadth centre chord circle circumference coefficients common cone cosec cube root decimal denominator denoted diagonal diameter difference dihedral angle distance divided divisor draw drawn equal equation equiangular EXAMPLES expression figure fraction frustum geometrical given line greater hence inscribed integer intersection join length less lineation logarithms mantissa measure meeting method multiplied parallel parallel ruler parallelogram perpendicular plane polygon prism PROBLEM proportional quantity quotient radii radius ratio rectangle Reduce right angles rule Scholium segment sides sine solid angle solution square root straight line subtraction tangent THEOREM third trapezium triangle ABC u₁ vulgar fraction Whence