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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. Lemniscate of Bernoulli - Wikipedia

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    The lemniscate is symmetric to the midpoint of the line segment F 1 F 2. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Method of exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Proposition 2: The area of circles is proportional to the square of their diameters. [3] Proposition 5: The volumes of two tetrahedra of the same height are proportional to the areas of their triangular bases. [4] Proposition 10: The volume of a cone is a third of the volume of the corresponding cylinder which has the same base and height. [5]

  7. 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]

  8. List of second moments of area - Wikipedia

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    The second moment of area, also known as area moment of inertia, is a geometrical property of an area which reflects how its points are distributed with respect to an arbitrary axis. The unit of dimension of the second moment of area is length to fourth power, L 4, and should not be confused with the mass moment of inertia.

  9. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    In this position, the hyperbolic paraboloid opens downward along the x-axis and upward along the y-axis (that is, the parabola in the plane x = 0 opens upward and the parabola in the plane y = 0 opens downward). Any paraboloid (elliptic or hyperbolic) is a translation surface, as it can be generated by a moving parabola directed by a second ...