A Complete Treatise on Practical Mathematics: Including the Nature and Use of Mathematical Instruments: Logarithmic Tables, Trigonometry, Mensuration of Heights and Distances,--of Surfaces & Solids, Land Surveying, Gunnery, Gauging, Artificer's Measuring, Miscellaneous Exercises. With an Appendix on Algebra ... Principally Designed for the Use of Schools and AcademiesBell and Bradfute, 1792 - 431 páginas |
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Página xi
... horizontal Planes , - - - 281 Oblique Cafes , Of the piling of Shot , Specific Gravity , Of Balls and Shells , - 290 294 - 303 - 311 - To find the Caliber of English Guns , GAUGING , 336 321 To To gauge Surfaces , To gauge Solids ...
... horizontal Planes , - - - 281 Oblique Cafes , Of the piling of Shot , Specific Gravity , Of Balls and Shells , - 290 294 - 303 - 311 - To find the Caliber of English Guns , GAUGING , 336 321 To To gauge Surfaces , To gauge Solids ...
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... horizontal plane , or on an inclined plane . A vertical plane , is that which is at right angles with the horizon . A horizontal plane , is that which is parallel to the horizon . The Geometrical quadrant , is the fourth part of a ...
... horizontal plane , or on an inclined plane . A vertical plane , is that which is at right angles with the horizon . A horizontal plane , is that which is parallel to the horizon . The Geometrical quadrant , is the fourth part of a ...
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... horizontal plane and BC a tower , whose height is required : From B , the foot of the tower , measure any con venient distance , 80 feet upon the horizontal plane AB . Suppose the tower to fubtend an angle of 39 ° 49 ' from A. What ...
... horizontal plane and BC a tower , whose height is required : From B , the foot of the tower , measure any con venient distance , 80 feet upon the horizontal plane AB . Suppose the tower to fubtend an angle of 39 ° 49 ' from A. What ...
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... horizontal plane , and observed the angle to be 40 ° 12 . Required the perpendicular height of the hill . N. B. When any fide AB of the triangle ADB is produced , the exterior angle DBC is equal to both the interior and op- posite ...
... horizontal plane , and observed the angle to be 40 ° 12 . Required the perpendicular height of the hill . N. B. When any fide AB of the triangle ADB is produced , the exterior angle DBC is equal to both the interior and op- posite ...
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... horizontal plane , I took the angle of elevation of the summit of a hill , and of the top of a tower built upon it , and found them to be 48 ° 20 ' and 61 ° 25 ′ . I then measured back 150 yards , and found the angle fubtended by the ...
... horizontal plane , I took the angle of elevation of the summit of a hill , and of the top of a tower built upon it , and found them to be 48 ° 20 ' and 61 ° 25 ′ . I then measured back 150 yards , and found the angle fubtended by the ...
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Página 27 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Página 103 - Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Página 3 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Página 220 - E, is equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, less four right angles.
Página 1 - ... common to the two triangles AFE, BFE, there are two sides in the one equal to two sides in the other, each to each ; and the base EA is equal to the base EB ; (i.
Página 38 - BG; that is, the fum of the fides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the fum of the angles at the bafe to the tangent of half their difference.
Página 352 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. III. Double the root already found for a divisor ; seek how many times the divisor is contained...
Página 38 - AB the greater side for a distance, let a circle be described, meeting AC, produced in E, F, and BC in D; join DA, EB, FB; and draw FG parallel to BC, meeting EB in G. The angle EAB (32.
Página 38 - ACB (32. 1.) is equal to the angles CAD and ADC, or ABC together ; therefore FAD is the difference of the angles at the...
Página 375 - TO divide a given ftraight line into two parts, fo that the rectangle contained by the whale, and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Let AB be the given ftraight line; it is required to divide it into two parts, fo that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Upon AB...