Students from Oakwood High School (Morgan Hill, CA) noticing cool examples of geometric objects and concepts in the world around them.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Arcs and Central Angles
This picture is of a CD disk in its cover. This picture shows two different ideas. One idea is a quadrilateral circumscribed about a circle. The cover fits around the disk like a quadrilateral circumscribed about a circle. The second idea is arcs and central angles. Point A is the center point here. Arc BC is approximately 37 degrees. The central angle CAB is also 37 degrees.
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