An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry

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J. Munroe and Company, 1841 - 150 pagina's
 

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Pagina 141 - The areas of two triangles which have an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles. D c A' D' Hyp. In triangles ABC and A'B'C', ZA = ZA'. To prove AABC = ABxAC. A A'B'C' A'B'xA'C' Proof. Draw the altitudes BD and B'D'.
Pagina 74 - The square described upon the hypothenuse of a right triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides.
Pagina 68 - The perimeters of two regular polygons of the same number of sides, are to each other as their homologous sides, and their areas are to each other as the squares of those sides (Prop.
Pagina 24 - CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E.
Pagina xv - The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second term the consequent.
Pagina 16 - Theorem. In an isosceles triangle the angles opposite the equal sides are equal.
Pagina 136 - ADC ; the last two are therefore right angles ; hence the arc drawn from the vertex of an isosceles spherical triangle to the middle of the base, is perpendicular to the base, and bisects the vertical angle.
Pagina 76 - AB (fig. 132) equal to the side of ono of the given squares. Draw BC, perpendicular to AB, and equal to the side of the second given square.
Pagina 20 - The sum of the three angles of any triangle is equal to two right angles.
Pagina 99 - THEOREM. Oblique lines drawn from a point to a plane, at equal distances from the perpendicular, are equal ; and of two oblique lines unequally distant from the perpendicular, the more remote is the longer. Let...

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