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Elementary Plane Geometry: Inductive and Deductive / By Alfred Baker Alfred Baker No preview available - 2015 |
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50 millimetres ABCD adjusting the bevel angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC angle of 60 angles equal angular points Apply tests centre chord circle of radius circle touching circumference construct a rectangle Construct a triangle Construct the triangle containing an angle Describe a circle Describe a regular Describe two circles diagonals distance dividers draw a line draw tangents drawn equal angles equilateral triangle exterior angle figure Give proof Give reasons Hence hypotenuse inches inscribe isosceles triangle line joining middle point nearest degree occupy with respect opposite angles opposite sides parallel lines parallel rulers parallel to BC parallelogram perpendicular position preceding question previous question protractor quadrilateral radii radius 35 millimetres rectangle equal regular hexagon regular pentagon remaining angles rhombus right angles right-angled triangle segment side of BC similar triangles square straight line struct Test accuracy three angles triangle ABC triangle with sides triangles are equal
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Page 68 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 95 - When it is affirmed (for instance) that " if two straight lines in a circle intersect each other, the rectangle contained by the segments of the one is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the other...
Page 42 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 96 - BC, contained by the whole of the cutting line, and the part of it without the circle, is equal to the square of BD which meets it ; therefore the straight line BD touches the circle ACD : (in.
Page 40 - Thus when it is said that the sum of the three angles of any triangle is equal to two right angles, this is a theorem, the truth of which is demonstrated by Geometry.
Page 91 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a chord be drawn, the angles which this chord makes with the tangent are equal to the angles in the alternate segments.
Page 17 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Page 18 - If two angles of a triangle are equal, the sides opposite to these angles are equal 21 ^THEOREM 14.
Page 86 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double the angle at the circumference on the same arc.
Page 88 - The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are together equal to two right angles, with converse.