Arc length is a fraction of circumference. Area of a sector is a fractions of the area of a circle. Both can be calculated using the angle at the centre and the diameter or radius. Practice circle ...
The circumference of a circle = \(\pi d\) or \(2\pi r\). Look at the sector of the circle shown below. To calculate the length of the arc, we need to know what fraction of the circle is shown. To do ...
An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no ...
You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...
Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized. Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of ...