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don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Thursday, 27 October 2011

radius from arc details

one way to work out the radius of an arc (r) from a given height (h) and the length of the chord (L)




















is to use the formula

which can obtained from the intersecting chord theorem or by using pythagoras

check that this gives the correct radius for the 'grate' question

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