| Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1859 - 390 pages
...which tA = / a, JP -# a, tt/ DX * Sometimes called 'homologous sides'. 'f- Euclid's enunciation of this is: 'Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides'. X zB=z&, zC=zc; then AB, ab being any two corresponding, or homologous, sides, the triangle ABC shall... | |
| Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...Extract the square root of 321489. Voluntary Portion. 1. To describe a circle about a given square. 2. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 3. One of the two digits of a number is double the other, and if 27 be added to the number the digits... | |
| EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, CULLA - 1860 - 612 pages
...has to the fourth ? The sides about the equal angles of equiangular triangles are proportionals. 12. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. LOGIC. I.—LOWER STANDARD. What ii the use of words ? Explain First and Second Intention. 2. Give... | |
| Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...described upon a given straight line similar to one given, and so on. QEF PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Let ABC, D.EFbe similar triangles, having the angle B equal to the angle E, and let AB be to BC, as... | |
| Eucleides - 1860 - 396 pages
...homologous sides are parallel. PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. — If triangles (ABC, DEF) are similar, they are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides (BC, EF). CONSMHTCTION. Take BG a third proportional to BC, EF (a), so that BC is to EF, as EF f* to... | |
| War office - 1861 - 714 pages
...less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle. 10 DIRECT COMMISSIONS. VOLUNTAKY PORTION. 1. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 2. Describe a rectilineal figure which shall be similar to one given rectilineal figure and equal to... | |
| Euclides - 1861 - 464 pages
...— to Plans, Maps, and Geometrical Drawings of every kind. PROP. 19. — THEOR. (Very important.) Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides ; ie, as the squares of their like sides. CON. 11, VI. DEM. Def. 12, V.— 16, V. If four Ms of of... | |
| Architecture - 1863 - 300 pages
...scale of equal parts how a rule of three sum may be solved geometrically. 9. Proposition 19. Theorem. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. J 0. If the superficial content of a triangle which has a base of 40 feet is 800 feet, what is the... | |
| Education - 1863 - 406 pages
...^5-^— 9=42 or £ the triangle ABC. I should mention 2 to draw ox parallel to BG. Now we know that similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides . • . BGC : oxC::BGa : ox', or 47.04 : 42::11.2" : 112 the square root of which is 10.583+=ox, or... | |
| Euclides - 1863 - 122 pages
...and this has been proved of triangles (VI. 19); therefore, universally, similar rectilineal figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Cor. 2.-—If to AB and FG, two of the homologous sides of the polygon, a third proportional M bo taken... | |
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