| Harvard University - Education - 1874 - 378 pages
...two sides of a triangle proportionally is parallel to the third side. 7. Prove that a tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact. 8. Prove that parallel chords intercept upon the circumference equal arcs. ANCIENT HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.... | |
| Howard Whitley Eves - History - 1983 - 292 pages
...equal to a straight angle, (3) the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, (4) a tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact, establish the following chain of theorems: (a) An exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum... | |
| Howard Whitley Eves - Mathematics - 1997 - 370 pages
...equal to a straight angle, (3) The base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, (4) A tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact, establish the following chain of theorems: (a) An exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum... | |
| Nicolas Slonimsky - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 348 pages
...is all done, one feels that Schoenberg reached some such conclusion as 'a straight line tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact." Schoenberg's music is huge labor to demonstrate a simple enough theorem, namely, that if you employ... | |
| Lyn Baker - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 154 pages
...at the centre is twice the angle at the circumference subtended by the same arc • the tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact '$• TIP! The converse is the opposite. The converse is not necessarily true for any given statement.... | |
| Mathematics - 2001 - 588 pages
...touches a circle at exactly one point. This point is called the point of contact. The tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact. The line from the centre of a circle to the midpoint of a chord is perpendicular to the chord. There... | |
| Public schools - 1897 - 770 pages
...5. A circumference can always be passed through the angular points of a rectangle. 6. A tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact. 7. If A: B=P: Q, prove B: A=Q: P. 8. All angles inscribed in the same segment of a circle are equal.... | |
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