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  2. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    Outer tangents to two circles. The distances between the centers of the nearer and farther circles, O 2 and O 1 and the point where the two outer tangents of the two circles intersect (homothetic center), S respectively can be found out using similarity as follows: Here, r can be r 1 or r 2 depending upon the need to find distances from the ...

  3. Inscribed angle - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, an inscribed angle is the angle formed in the interior of a circle when two chords intersect on the circle. It can also be defined as the angle subtended at a point on the circle by two given points on the circle. Equivalently, an inscribed angle is defined by two chords of the circle sharing an endpoint. The inscribed angle ...

  4. Intersecting chords theorem - Wikipedia

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    The value of the two products in the chord theorem depends only on the distance of the intersection point S from the circle's center and is called the absolute value of the power of S; more precisely, it can be stated that: | | | | = | | | | = where r is the radius of the circle, and d is the distance between the center of the circle and the ...

  5. Spherical trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    The angle A (respectively, B and C) may be regarded either as the dihedral angle between the two planes that intersect the sphere at the vertex A, or, equivalently, as the angle between the tangents of the great circle arcs where they meet at the vertex. Angles are expressed in radians.

  6. Angle - Wikipedia

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    The angle between the two curves at P is defined as the angle between the tangents A and B at P. The angle between a line and a curve (mixed angle) or between two intersecting curves (curvilinear angle) is defined to be the angle between the tangents at the point of intersection.

  7. Intersection (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    intersection of two polygons: window test. If one wants to determine the intersection points of two polygons, one can check the intersection of any pair of line segments of the polygons (see above). For polygons with many segments this method is rather time-consuming. In practice one accelerates the intersection algorithm by using window tests ...

  8. Intersecting secants theorem - Wikipedia

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    The similarity yields an equation for ratios which is equivalent to the equation of the theorem given above: = | | | | = | | | | Next to the intersecting chords theorem and the tangent-secant theorem, the intersecting secants theorem represents one of the three basic cases of a more general theorem about two intersecting lines and a circle ...

  9. Tangent - Wikipedia

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    The angle between two curves at a point where they intersect is defined as the angle between their tangent lines at that point. More specifically, two curves are said to be tangent at a point if they have the same tangent at a point, and orthogonal if their tangent lines are orthogonal. [18]