Descriptive Geometry

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McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1928 - Geometry, Descriptive - 183 pages

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Page 77 - ... (c) The distance between reference points is considered to be the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, one side of which is the difference in latitude of the reference points and the other side the difference in longitude of the two reference points, and shall be computed by the method set forth in this paragraph.
Page 103 - PROPOSITION XXIV. THEOREM. 567. The acute angle which a straight line makes with its projection upon a plane is the least angle which it makes with any line of the plane. Let BA meet the plane...
Page 149 - Y) the coordinates of its projection by a line parallel to the axis of x on a plane of circular section, the axis of Y coinciding with that of y, and the axis of X lying in the plane of circular section.
Page 30 - Since any two points determine a straight line, a line is usually designated by its two extremities if it has a fixed length. Otherwise any two points of the line may be chosen at random for the purpose of locating the entire line in any other view. In general, the line is read from left to right. Lines in a profile plane are read from front to rear, and, if vertical, are read downward.
Page 123 - A general expression for the stresses on a plane of any orientation in three dimensions can be written in terms of the direction cosines of the normal to the plane and the direction of action of the stress (Sines, 1969).
Page 14 - Slope of a line in terms of the coordinates of two of its points 66 50.
Page 124 - The general form of the equation of the plane Ax + By + Cz + D = 0 may be transformed to the normal form by dividing by the quantity \/A2 + B* + С2.
Page 77 - С are obtained in a similar manner. It will be noted that the В1 Fio.
Page 23 - If in the equation of a plane the coefficients of two of the variables are zero, the plane is parallel to the two corresponding axes or parallel to a plane of reference.
Page 24 - A line may be defined either as the join of two points or as the intersection of two planes.

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