Objectives Flashcards
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He gave emphasis on Plane
Geometry
Euclid
Contributed in solid geometry
Archimedes
The problems of this type of
geometry can be solved by logical reasoning from an initial core of postulates (axioms)
Euclidean Geometry
Other term for Full angle (equal to 360 degrees)
Perigon
Two angles with a common leg
Adjacent angles
Two angles whose sum is a
perigon
Explementary angles
A straight line which divides a
geometric figure into two equal figures
Bisector
Also called the centesimal degree (1/400th of the full circle)
Gon
A triangle with sides 3,4,5 units
Egyptian triangle
Triangle inscribed in a given
triangle whose vertices are the
feet of the three perpendiculars to the sides from point inside a given triangle
Pedal triangle
Golden ratio
72, 72, 36
Segment of a secant bounded by the circle
Chord
A line cutting the circle in two
places
Secant
Area bounded by two radius and the included arc
Sector
Area bounded by a chord and the arc subtending the chord
Segment
A solid whose faces are plane
polygons
Polyhedron
Law of sines was demonstrated
by
Ptolemy of Alexandria
Law of Cosines was introduced by
Francois Viete
A circle whose center coincides with the center of the sphere
Great Circle
Surfaces of wedges are called
_____ or ______
Spherical lunes or Digons
Terrestrial sphere refers to the
earth as sphere with a radius of
3959 statute miles
Angular distance of the point
from the equator
Latitude
One minute of the arc of latitude
is approximately __________
one nautical mile or 1852 meters
Angular distance between the
prime meridian and the meridian
through the point
Longitude