A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy ...J. Johnson, 1811 |
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... Circles , are respectively as their Perimeters * . Let the polygon ABCD be circumscribed about the circle EFGH ; and let this polygon be divided into triangles , by lines drawn . from its several angles to the centre o of the circle ...
... Circles , are respectively as their Perimeters * . Let the polygon ABCD be circumscribed about the circle EFGH ; and let this polygon be divided into triangles , by lines drawn . from its several angles to the centre o of the circle ...
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... circle and half the corresponding side AB , BC , & c : and consequently , the area of the polygon ABCD , circumscribing the circle , will be equal to the rectangle of the radius of the circle and half the perimeter of the polygon . But ...
... circle and half the corresponding side AB , BC , & c : and consequently , the area of the polygon ABCD , circumscribing the circle , will be equal to the rectangle of the radius of the circle and half the perimeter of the polygon . But ...
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... Circle and a Polygon , Circumscribable about another Circle , are Isoperimeters , the Surface of the Circle is a Geometrical Mean Proportional between that Polygon and a Similar Polygon ( regular or irregular ) Circumscribed about that ...
... Circle and a Polygon , Circumscribable about another Circle , are Isoperimeters , the Surface of the Circle is a Geometrical Mean Proportional between that Polygon and a Similar Polygon ( regular or irregular ) Circumscribed about that ...
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... circle , are respectively in the inverse ratio of the perimeters , or of the surfaces , of figures similar to them , and both circumscribed about one and the same circle . And that the perimeters of equal rec- tilineal figures , each ...
... circle , are respectively in the inverse ratio of the perimeters , or of the surfaces , of figures similar to them , and both circumscribed about one and the same circle . And that the perimeters of equal rec- tilineal figures , each ...
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... circle , become smaller as the number of their sides become greater . THEOREM XVI . The Surfaces of Regular ... circle . And ( th . 15 ) these latter are smaller when their number of sides is greater : therefore , on the contrary , the ...
... circle , become smaller as the number of their sides become greater . THEOREM XVI . The Surfaces of Regular ... circle . And ( th . 15 ) these latter are smaller when their number of sides is greater : therefore , on the contrary , the ...
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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.