Students from Oakwood High School (Morgan Hill, CA) noticing cool examples of geometric objects and concepts in the world around them.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Common Tangents
After finding these materials in my room, I noticed that I was staring at a circles that had both internal and external common tangents. You could see both of the ways that made this true. The top picture shows that the two circles could share an internal common tangent, and the second picture below shows the circles with common external tangents. (~MC2)
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