Solutions to the mathematical examination papers set for admission to the Royal military academy, Woolwich, and for the Royal military college [&c.] by D. Tierney and H. Sharratt1877 |
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... TO 1P.M. 1. To make a triangle of which the sides shall be equal to three given straight lines , but any two whatever of these must be greater than the third . How would the process fail if the last condition were 10 EUCLID . Euclid.
... TO 1P.M. 1. To make a triangle of which the sides shall be equal to three given straight lines , but any two whatever of these must be greater than the third . How would the process fail if the last condition were 10 EUCLID . Euclid.
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... triangle DEF shall be equal to the triangle ABC . Produce the side ED to E ' , making DE ' equal to DE , and join FE ' . Then , since the angle E'DF equals the angle BAC , and BA and AC are equal to E'D and DF respectively , the triangle ...
... triangle DEF shall be equal to the triangle ABC . Produce the side ED to E ' , making DE ' equal to DE , and join FE ' . Then , since the angle E'DF equals the angle BAC , and BA and AC are equal to E'D and DF respectively , the triangle ...
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... triangle . Lines are drawn parallel to one side of a triangle cutting the other sides , or the other sides produced , shew that if circles be described about the new triangles so formed , their centres all lie in a straight line , and ...
... triangle . Lines are drawn parallel to one side of a triangle cutting the other sides , or the other sides produced , shew that if circles be described about the new triangles so formed , their centres all lie in a straight line , and ...
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... triangle equal to a given triangle . Let EF ( fig . 6 ) be the given straight line , ABC the given triangle ; make the angle GEF equal to the angle ABC , and take EG a fourth proportional to BC , EF , and AB . Join FG . Then the triangle ...
... triangle equal to a given triangle . Let EF ( fig . 6 ) be the given straight line , ABC the given triangle ; make the angle GEF equal to the angle ABC , and take EG a fourth proportional to BC , EF , and AB . Join FG . Then the triangle ...
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... triangles CP : PD : CO : OD ; therefore the angle CPD is bisected by OP and CO : OD in the given ratio . TRIGONOMETRY . SATURDAY , 2ND DECEMBER , 1876. 2 P.M TO 5 P.M. 1. Define the degree and unit of circular measure , and shew how to ...
... triangles CP : PD : CO : OD ; therefore the angle CPD is bisected by OP and CO : OD in the given ratio . TRIGONOMETRY . SATURDAY , 2ND DECEMBER , 1876. 2 P.M TO 5 P.M. 1. Define the degree and unit of circular measure , and shew how to ...
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Page 55 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 71 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts, the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square on the line between the points of section, is equal to the square on half the line.
Page 11 - ... shall be equal to three given straight lines, but any two whatever of these must be greater than the third.
Page 12 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 13 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Page 15 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 13 - BAC is cut off from the given circle ABC containing an angle equal to the given angle D : Which was to be done. PROP. XXXV. THEOR. If two straight lines within a circle cut one another, the rectangle contained by the segments of one of them is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the other.
Page 62 - In every triangle, the square of the side subtending either of the acute angles, is less than the squares of the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides, and the straight line intercepted between the acute angle and the perpendicular let fall upon it from the opposite angle.
Page 13 - PROP. X. THEOR. IF a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point, the square of the whole line thus produced, and the square of the part of it produced, are together double of the square of half the line bisected, and of the square of the line made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 70 - And because the angle ABC is equal to the angle BCD, and the angle CBD to the angle ACB, therefore the whole angle ABD is equal to the whole angle ACD • (ax.