A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy ...J. Johnson, 1811 |
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Page 112
... horizontal line ; and this line being assumed as the base of the operations , a variety of hills and elevated spots are selected , at which signals can be placed , suitably distant and visible.one from another : the straight lines ...
... horizontal line ; and this line being assumed as the base of the operations , a variety of hills and elevated spots are selected , at which signals can be placed , suitably distant and visible.one from another : the straight lines ...
Page 115
... horizontal plane , the line AM will also be in that plane : but , because of the curvature of the earth , the prolongation MM ' , of that line , will be found above the plane of the second horizontal triangle BCD : if , therefore ...
... horizontal plane , the line AM will also be in that plane : but , because of the curvature of the earth , the prolongation MM ' , of that line , will be found above the plane of the second horizontal triangle BCD : if , therefore ...
Page 119
... horizontally , and allowances were made for changes in its length by reason of variations of temperature , at the rate of 0075 of an inch for each degree of heat from 62 ° of Fahrenheit : the result of the measurement by this chain was ...
... horizontally , and allowances were made for changes in its length by reason of variations of temperature , at the rate of 0075 of an inch for each degree of heat from 62 ° of Fahrenheit : the result of the measurement by this chain was ...
Page 120
... horizontal angles to fractions of a second . This instrument , besides , has a telescope of a much higher magnifying power than had ever before been applied to observations purely terrestrial ; and this is one of the supe riorities in ...
... horizontal angles to fractions of a second . This instrument , besides , has a telescope of a much higher magnifying power than had ever before been applied to observations purely terrestrial ; and this is one of the supe riorities in ...
Page 126
... Horizontal Plane . Let BCA be an angle measured in a plane inclined to the horizon , and let B'CA ' be the corresponding angle in the ho- rizontal plane . Let d and d ' be the zenith distances , or the complements of the angles of ...
... Horizontal Plane . Let BCA be an angle measured in a plane inclined to the horizon , and let B'CA ' be the corresponding angle in the ho- rizontal plane . Let d and d ' be the zenith distances , or the complements of the angles of ...
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Page 63 - 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.
Page 114 - Since the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (th.
Page 247 - Or, by art. 3 14 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, •whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and...
Page 80 - A solid angle is that which is made by the meeting of more than two plane angles, which are not in the same plane, in one point. X. ' The tenth definition is omitted for reasons given in the notes.
Page 333 - ... to secure uniformity, his trees were all felled in the same season of the year, were squared the day after, and the experiments tried the 3d day.
Page 164 - Cor. 3. An equation will want its third term, if the sum of the products of the roots taken two and two, is partly positive, partly negative, and these mutually destroy each other. Remark.
Page 162 - ... preceding equation is only of the fourth power or degree ; but it is manifest that the above remark applies to equations of higher or lower dimensions : viz. that in general an equation of any degree whatever has as many roots as there are units in the exponent of the highest power of the unknown quantity, and that each root has the property of rendering, by its substitution in place of the unknown quantity, the aggregate of all the terms of the equation equul to nothing.
Page 72 - Prove that, in any plane triangle, the base is to the difference of the other two sides, as the sine of half the sum of the angles at the base, to the sine of half their difference : also, that the...
Page 259 - And when this is compared with the proportion of the velocity and length of gun in the last paragraph, it is evident that we gain extremely little in the range by a great increase in the length of the gun, with the same charge of powder. In fact the range is nearly as the 5th root of the length of the bore ; which is so small an increase, as to amount only to about a...
Page 72 - Prob. 12. How must three trees, A, B, C, be planted, so that the angle at A may be double the angle at B, the angle at B double the angle at C, and a line of 400 yards may just go round them ? Ans.