Longmans' School Mensuration: With an Additional Chapter and ExercisesLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 182 pages |
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9 ft acres base line breadth carpet centre chord of half circle whose radius circumference Compare the volumes cone Crown 8vo cube cubic foot cubic inches diagonal EASY EXERCISES edge ellipse equal equilateral triangle find its volume find the area Find the cost find the diameter find the height Find the lateral find the length find the number find the radius find the side find the surface Find the total Find the volume frustum gals h₁ half the arc hypothenuse inscribed circle lateral surface Let ABCD measures miles Multiply number of cubic oblique parallelopiped parallelogram perimeter perpendicular height polygon prismoid pyramid quadrilateral radii rectangle regular hexagon rhombus right angles RULE.-Multiply S₁ Sect slant height solid sphere square field square root square yard subtended thick total surface trapezoid wedge zone πλ
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Page 111 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 161 - Multiply the sum of the two parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 96 - RULE. To the sum of the areas of the two ends add the square root of their product ; multiply this sum by the perpendicular height, and \ of the product is the solid content.
Page 53 - From eight times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc, and divide the remainder by 3, and the quotient will be the length of the arc, nearly.
Page 44 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Page 6 - A right-angled triangle is one which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypothenuse.
Page 76 - What is the length of the edge of a cubical cistern which contains as much as a rectangular one whose edges are 154 ft. 11 in., 70 ft. 7 in., and 53 ft. 1 in.