| Albert Newton Raub - Arithmetic - 1877 - 348 pages
...being 12 ft. long? Ans. 42f cu. ft. 8. SPHEKES. 870. A Sphere is a volume bounded by a uniformly-curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 371. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre and... | |
| Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1878 - 380 pages
...slant height. Thus, in Fig. 30, the line op indicates the slant height of the frustum. 724. A globe, or sphere, is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every...point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 31 NOTE. A circle which divides a sphere into two equal parts is a great circle... | |
| Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1889 - 482 pages
...being 6 feet and of the other 3 feet 1 Ana. 5277.888 cu. ft. THE SPHERE. 779. A Sphere is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a poiat within called the centre. 780. The Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre... | |
| Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1878 - 590 pages
...perpendicular to AB at its centre is '^— called the minor diameter. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, Fig. 22. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about... | |
| Alfred Hiley - 1879 - 228 pages
...24 ft. throughout. Fiud the cubic contents. 128 XXV. THE SPHERE. Definitions. — A sphere or globe is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the sphere, called the centre. The radius of a sphere is the straight line drawn... | |
| De Volson Wood - Geometry, Analytic - 1882 - 360 pages
...- z'), which is tlie equation, of a plane, (Art. 202). Surfaces of Revolution. 229. The Sphere is a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. It may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about a diameter. Let r be... | |
| Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1880 - 420 pages
...solid which remains when a portion having the vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to the base. 11. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is at the same distance from a point within, called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight... | |
| Edwin Pliny Seaver - Arithmetic - 1881 - 366 pages
...Thus, in Fig. 30, the line op indicates the slant height of the frustum. Fig 81 724. A globe, or sphwe, is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. NOTE. A circle which divides a sphere into two equal parts is a great circle of... | |
| Geography - 1881 - 142 pages
...longer than 90 degrees of the inner one, though the angle subtended is the same. A Sphere is a body bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the Center. Half a sphere is called a Hemisphere ; hemi means half. A Great Circle of a sphere... | |
| Simon Newcomb - Geometry - 1881 - 418 pages
...directions. Parallel imes. The Circle. 10. Def. A circle is a figure formed by a plane curve line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. The Angle. 11. Def. An angle is a figure formed by two straight lines extending out from one point... | |
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