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  2. Quadrature of the Parabola - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord.

  3. Geometric series - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes in his The Quadrature of the Parabola used the sum of a geometric series to compute the area enclosed by a parabola and a straight line. Archimedes' theorem states that the total area under the parabola is ⁠ 4 / 3 ⁠ of the area of the blue triangle. His method was to dissect the area into infinite triangles as shown in the ...

  4. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    The area A of the parabolic segment enclosed by the parabola and the chord is therefore =. This formula can be compared with the area of a triangle: ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ bh. In general, the enclosed area can be calculated as follows. First, locate the point on the parabola where its slope equals that of the chord.

  5. Method of exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    The area bounded by the intersection of a line and a parabola is 4/3 that of the triangle having the same base and height (the quadrature of the parabola); The area of an ellipse is proportional to a rectangle having sides equal to its major and minor axes;

  6. Lemniscate of Bernoulli - Wikipedia

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    The area enclosed by the lemniscate is a 2 = 2c 2. The lemniscate is the circle inversion of a hyperbola and vice versa. The two tangents at the midpoint O are perpendicular, and each of them forms an angle of ⁠ π / 4 ⁠ with the line connecting F 1 and F 2. The planar cross-section of a standard torus tangent to its inner equator is a ...

  7. Circular segment - Wikipedia

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    A circular segment (in green) is enclosed between a secant/chord (the dashed line) and the arc whose endpoints equal the chord's (the arc shown above the green area). In geometry, a circular segment or disk segment (symbol: ⌓) is a region of a disk [1] which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a straight line.

  8. Shoelace formula - Wikipedia

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    Shoelace scheme for determining the area of a polygon with point coordinates (,),..., (,). The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, [1] is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by their Cartesian coordinates in the plane. [2]

  9. Parabolic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The scale factors for the parabolic coordinates (,) are equal = = + Hence, the infinitesimal element of area is = (+) and the Laplacian equals = + (+) Other differential operators such as and can be expressed in the coordinates (,) by substituting the scale factors into the general formulae found in orthogonal coordinates.