Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Cymbals with Tangents, Chords, & Secants

Over the weekend, I acquired two new cymbals and I thought I'd make use of them, other than for music.  In this first illustration, I proved that the result of multiplying two pieces of individual chords should be equal.  I simply multiplied AE x EC (the labels you can't see very well, sorry,) the first chord, and then BE x ED, the second chord, and they both came out to be 34.36 cm sq.  


In this second picture, I demonstrated that the tangent of a circle multiplied by itself, is equal to the outside piece of a secant multiplied by the entire length of the secant. I squared AB which resulted in 200.77 cm sq, and multiplied AC x AD, which resulted in 200.77 cm sq as well. This proves that the tangent squared does equal the secant length times the outer piece. (~JG2)

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