| Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...equal (16. vi.) to the rectangle EA, AD. If, therefore, from any angle, etc. QED PROPOSITION D. THEOR. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, is equal to both the rectangles contained by its opposite sides. Let ABCD be any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle,... | |
| 1857 - 408 pages
...another. 2. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 3. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to both the rectangles contained by its opposite sides. SECT. II, — 1. Describe a rhombus, of which... | |
| Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...ADxDE = BDxDC (Prop. XXVII.) ; hence BAxAC=BDxDC+AD'. Therefore, if an angle, &c. PROPOSITION XXX. THEOREM. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, is equivalent to the sum of the rectangles of the opposite sides. Let ABCD be any quadrilateral inscribed... | |
| John Hymers - Logarithms - 1858 - 292 pages
...COB FO cosFG ' cos CH+ cos FH~ cos AO + cos FQ* or 4. The product of the sines of the semi-diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, is equal to the sum of the products of the sines of half the opposite sides. Let the dotted lines (fig. 24) represent the chords... | |
| Royal University of Ireland - Universities and colleges - 1859 - 490 pages
...equation xs — 6*= 100. 4. Prove that the rectangle under the diagonals of a quadrilateral figure inscribed in a circle is equal to the sum of the rectangles under the opposite sides ; and hence calculate the side of a regular quindecagon inscribed in a given... | |
| Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...consequently the rectangle BA • AC is equal to the rectangle EA • AD (VI. 16). I'JtorOSITJON D. THEOBEM. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, is equal to both the rectangles contained by its opposite sides. Given any quadrilateral ABCD inscribed in a circle,... | |
| War office - 1861 - 714 pages
...square of the line which meets it, the line which meets shall touch the circle. VOLUNTARY PORTION. 1. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to both the rectangles contained by its opposite sides. 2. If two straight lines are at right angles to... | |
| Thomas Percy Hudson - Trigonometry - 1862 - 202 pages
...(fj+y) = sin a sin 7+ sin /3 sin(a + j3+7), and apply this formula to shew that the rectangle under the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to the sum of the rectangles under the opposite sides. sin (a +/3) sin (j3 +7) =£{cos (a - 7) - cos (0 + 2/8 + 7)} = ^{003 (a -... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1861 - 638 pages
...multiplied by twice the diameter of the circumscribed circle. PROPOSITION XXXVIII. — THEOREM. 291. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equivalent to the sum of the two rectangles of the opposite sides. Let ABCD be any quadrilateral inscribed... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...multiplied by twice the diameter of the circumscribed circle. PROPOSITION XXXVIII. — THEOREM. 291. Tlie rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equivalent to the sum of the two rectangles of the opposite sides. Let ABCD be any quadrilatoral inscribed... | |
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