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  2. Wedge (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A wedge is a polyhedron of a rectangular base, with the faces are two isosceles triangles and two trapezoids that meet at the top of an edge. [1]. A prismatoid is defined as a polyhedron where its vertices lie on two parallel planes, with its lateral faces are triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms; [2] the wedge is an example of prismatoid because of its top edge is parallel to the ...

  3. Spherical wedge - Wikipedia

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    Hart (2009) [3] states that the "volume of a spherical wedge is to the volume of the sphere as the number of degrees in the [angle of the wedge] is to 360". Hence, and through derivation of the spherical wedge volume formula, it can be concluded that, if V s is the volume of the sphere and V w is the volume of a given spherical wedge,

  4. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    The formula for the magnitude of the solid angle in steradians is =, where is the area (of any shape) on the surface of the sphere and is the radius of the sphere. Solid angles are often used in astronomy, physics, and in particular astrophysics. The solid angle of an object that is very far away is roughly proportional to the ratio of area to ...

  5. Solution of triangles - Wikipedia

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    For the spherical case, one can first compute the length of side from the point at α to the ship (i.e. the side opposite to β) via the ASA formula ⁡ = ⁡ ⁡ ⁡ (+) + ⁡ ⁡ (), and insert this into the AAS formula for the right subtriangle that contains the angle α and the sides b and d: ⁡ = ⁡ ⁡ = ⁡ + ⁡ ⁡. (The planar ...

  6. Wedge - Wikipedia

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    A wedge will bind when the wedge included angle is less than the arctangent of the coefficient of friction between the wedge and the material. Therefore, in an elastic material such as wood, friction may bind a narrow wedge more easily than a wide one. This is why the head of a splitting maul has a much wider angle than that of an axe.

  7. Spherical law of cosines - Wikipedia

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    Let u, v, and w denote the unit vectors from the center of the sphere to those corners of the triangle. We have u · u = 1, v · w = cos c, u · v = cos a, and u · w = cos b.The vectors u × v and u × w have lengths sin a and sin b respectively and the angle between them is C, so ⁡ ⁡ ⁡ = () = () () = ⁡ ⁡ ⁡

  8. Internal and external angles - Wikipedia

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    The sum of all the internal angles of a simple polygon is π(n − 2) radians or 180(n – 2) degrees, where n is the number of sides. The formula can be proved by using mathematical induction: starting with a triangle, for which the angle sum is 180°, then replacing one side with two sides connected at another vertex, and so on.

  9. Table of polyhedron dihedral angles - Wikipedia

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    exact dihedral angle (radians) dihedral angle – exact in bold, else approximate (degrees) Platonic solids (regular convex) Tetrahedron {3,3} (3.3.3)