 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...aIn any jilane triangle AUC, the sum of the two gruen sides AB and BC, including a given angle ABC, is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the two unknown angles A and Cix tg the tangent of half their difference. Produce AB, and make HB— BC,... | |
 | John Gummere - Surveying - 1814 - 398 pages
...therefore since BC, FG are parallel EB : BF : : EC : CG (2. 6.) ; that is, the * sum of the sides AC, AB, is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles ABC, ACB, is to the tangent of half their difference. • *• •• To demonstrate the latter... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...the opposite angles, !£o the tangent of half their difference. Thus the sum of AB and AC (Fig. 25.) is to their difference ; as the tangent of half the sum of the angles ACB and ABC, to the tangent of half their difference. Demonstration. Extend CA to G, making... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1815 - 172 pages
...the opposite angles, To the tangent of half their difference. Thus the sum of AB and AC (Fig. 25.) is to their difference ; as the tangent of half the sum of the angles ACB and ABC, to the tangent of half their difference. Demonstration. Extend CA to G, making... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...their difference; and since BC, FG are parallel (2. 6.), EC is to CF, as EB to BG; that is, the sum of the sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base, to the tangent of half their difference. PROP. IV. FIG. 18. IN any plane triangle... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Plane trigonometry - 1816 - 276 pages
...cosines being the sines of the complements, it follows from the proposition that the sum of the cosines, is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the complements, is to the tangent of halt' their difference. But half the sum of the complements of two... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry - 1817 - 456 pages
...cos la + 7 cos5a + 21 cos3a + 35c. ' &e. &c. &c. PROP. IV. THEOR. The sum of the sines of two arcs is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of those arcs to the tangent of half the difference. If A and B denote two arcs ; smA+«'wB : sin A—... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1819 - 430 pages
...X oq : : BC* : AC*. Required a proof. 8. Prove, geometrically, that in any plane triangle, the sum of the sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base to the tangent of half their difference. 9. Shew that tan.3 60 = 3 tan. 60 to rad.... | |
 | John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...the difference between either of them and 45o. * PROP. IV. The sum of any troo sides of a triangle is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite to those sides, to the tangent of half their difference. Let ABC be any plane triangle... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...as BE : BD ;; AE : DF ; that is, as the sum of the sides is to the difference of the sides, so is. the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles, to the tangent of half their difference. EXAMPLE J. In the plane triangle ABC, i AB .145 yards Given < AC 174-07 yards I Z. A 37° 20' Required... | |
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In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference. By Theorem II. we have a : b : : sin. A : sin. B. 
