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  2. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    Let the perpendicular to the line of symmetry, through the focus, intersect the parabola at a point T. Then (1) the distance from F to T is 2f, and (2) a tangent to the parabola at point T intersects the line of symmetry at a 45° angle. [13]: 26 Perpendicular tangents intersect on the directrix

  3. Rose (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of roses are composed of petals.A petal is the shape formed by the graph of a half-cycle of the sinusoid that specifies the rose. (A cycle is a portion of a sinusoid that is one period T = ⁠ 2π / k ⁠ long and consists of a positive half-cycle, the continuous set of points where r ≥ 0 and is ⁠ T / 2 ⁠ = ⁠ π / k ⁠ long, and a negative half-cycle is the other half where r ...

  4. Simson line - Wikipedia

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    The Simson line of a vertex of the triangle is the altitude of the triangle dropped from that vertex, and the Simson line of the point diametrically opposite to the vertex is the side of the triangle opposite to that vertex. If P and Q are points on the circumcircle, then the angle between the Simson lines of P and Q is half the angle of the ...

  5. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    Line is the bisector of the angle between the lines ¯, ¯. In order to prove that w {\displaystyle w} is the tangent line at point P {\displaystyle P} , one checks that any point Q {\displaystyle Q} on line w {\displaystyle w} which is different from P {\displaystyle P} cannot be on the hyperbola.

  6. Symmetry in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Symmetry occurs not only in geometry, but also in other branches of mathematics. Symmetry is a type of invariance: the property that a mathematical object remains unchanged under a set of operations or transformations. [1] Given a structured object X of any sort, a symmetry is a mapping of the object onto itself which preserves the structure.

  7. 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.

  8. Symmetry (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Symmetry with respect to all rotations about all points implies translational symmetry with respect to all translations (because translations are compositions of rotations about distinct points), [18] and the symmetry group is the whole E + (m). This does not apply for objects because it makes space homogeneous, but it may apply for physical laws.

  9. Dihedral angle - Wikipedia

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    A dihedral angle is the angle between two intersecting planes or half-planes. It is a plane angle formed on a third plane, perpendicular to the line of intersection between the two planes or the common edge between the two half-planes. In higher dimensions, a dihedral angle represents the angle between two hyperplanes.