| How - 1868 - Liczba stron: 296
...English, Latin, and Greek tongues, and understood (what few lads of my age then understood) , that ' similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides." In a word, then, I was something of a scholar, and I may well be forgiven if I were a little proud... | |
| E. M. Reynolds - 1868 - Liczba stron: 172
...the second. The proof we leave as an exercise for the learner. The proposition that " Similar figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides " is true of curvilinear figures as well as of rectilinear. Thus two circles are to one another as... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1904 - Liczba stron: 688
...furnished by the liberty which each of these excellent works takes with Euclid's Prop, ig, Bk. vi.- — " similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides " — mysterious but high-sounding- to countless generations of schoolboys. Here it is, in identical... | |
| John A. Smith - 1869 - Liczba stron: 368
...Perpendiculars. 10 22384 to be deducted. Donble areas. 1500 1500 19520 21020 map. As the areas of similar figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides, we have A : a; IS J : s*. From this proportion we obtain— , jlx«* jo /-4V *= , and S=s I — ] .... | |
| Anthony Nesbit - 1870 - Liczba stron: 578
...; then the triangle ABC is to the A triangle ADE as the square of BC to the square of DE. That is, similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides (Euc. vi. 19 ; Simp, c^ iv. 24; Em. ii. 18). THEOREM XIV. In any triangle ABC, double the square of... | |
| Edinburgh univ - 1871 - Liczba stron: 392
...the part of it without the circle, is equal to the square of the line which touches it. 6. Prove that similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Given (b) the base of a triangle, find an expression for the base of a similar triangle whose area... | |
| Patrick Weston Joyce - 1871 - Liczba stron: 170
...twice the rectangle contained by the parts. 2. Deseribe a regular pentagon about a given cirele. 3. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 4. If perpendiculars Aa, B&, Cc, be drawn from the angular points of a triangle ALC upon the opposite... | |
| Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - 1872 - Liczba stron: 376
...more sides may be described, on a given line, similar to a given fig. QEF PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Let ABC, DEF be similar AS, having L s at A, B, C= s.sa.tD,E,F respectively, so that BC and EF are... | |
| Euclid - 1872 - Liczba stron: 284
...AEDCB) may be divided inl» similar triangles, equal in number, and homologous to all. Ana the polygons are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. PART 1. — Because in the triangles FGI and AED, the angles G and E are ' equal, and the sides about... | |
| Manchester univ - 1872 - Liczba stron: 380
...stand. cal angle and the segments into which the line bisecting it divides the base. 4. Similar polygons are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 5. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to the... | |
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