Geometry Tips:
-> The area of a square is one-half the the square of the length of a diagonal
-> A line parallel to a side of a triangle that intersects the other two sides divides them proportionally.
-> The angle bisector of an angle divides the opposite side proportional to the other two sides.
-> The angle bisectors intersect at a point called the incenter, that is the center of the inscribed circle.
-> The length of the radius of the inscribed circle is equal to the area of the triangle divided by the semiperimeter.
-> The perpendicular bisectors meet at a point, called the circumcenter, that is the center of the circumscribed circle.
-> The altitudes meet at a point called the orthocenter.
-> The medians intersect at a point (called the centroid) that is two-thirds of the distance from each vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side.
-> The coordinates of the centroid can be found by averaging the coordinates of the vertices.
-> (Ceva’s Theorem) In triangle ABC, with J on AB, K on BC, and L on CA, the segments AK, BL and CJ are concurrent (intersect in one point) if and only if (AJ/JB)(BK/KC)(CL/LA) = 1.-
-> (Ceva’s Theorem Trig Form) In triangle ABC, with J on AB, K on BC, and L on CA, the segments AK, BL and CJ are concurrent (intersect in one point) if and only if (sin(BAK)/sin(KAC))(sin(CBL)/sin(LBA))(sin(ACJ)/sin(JCB)) = 1.
-> The height of an equilateral triangle is sÃ3/2 (So the area is s2 Ã3/4)
-> A regular hexagon inscribed in a circle can be divided into six congruent equilateral triangles, where the length of a side is equal to the radius of the circle. Therefore the area of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle of radius r is: A=r23Ã3/2.
-> The midpoint of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equidistant to all three vertices.
-> When an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, three similar triangles are formed, and the following hold:
a. The square of the length of the altitude is equal to the product of the lengths of the segments of the hypotenuse.
b. When the length of each leg is squared it equals the product of the hypotenuse and the segment on the hypotenuse adjacent to that leg.
-> The sum of the exterior angles of a polygon, one at each vertex, is 360.
-> The interior angles of a regular polygon with n sides are 180-(360/n) each.
-> Two tangent segments drawn to a the same circle from the same point are equal.
-> The figure made by connecting a common external tangent, two radii, and a segment
connecting the two centers is a trapezoid with two right angles. (Often you divide into a rectangle and a right triangle to solve for missing lengths.)
-> Two chords have the same lengths if and only if they cut off equal length arcs.
-> Two chords are have the same lengths if and only if they are the same distance from the center.
-> A diameter drawn through a chord is perpendicular to the chord if and only if it bisects the chord and the arc.
-> The measure of an angle with its vertex at the center of a circle is equal to the measure of the intercepted arc.
-> The measure of an inscribed angle (that is an angle with its vertex on the circle) is one-half the intercepted arc.
-> If two inscribed angles intercept the same arc, then the angles have the same measure.
-> The measure of the angle made by a chord and a tangent is one-half the measure of the intercepted arc.
-> An angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle.
-> A triangle inscribed in a circle is a right triangle if and only if one of the sides is a diameter.
-> The measure of the angle formed by two intersecting chords is equal to one-half the sum of
the measures of the intercepted arcs of the angle and its vertical angle.
-> The measure of the angle formed by two secants, two tangents, or a secant and a tangent drawn from a point outside a circle is equal to one-half the difference of the measures of the intercepted arcs.
-> If two chords intersect, the product of the lengths of the two parts of one chord is equal to the product of the lengths of the parts of the other chord.
-> When two secant segments are drawn to a circle from an external point, the product of the lengths of one secant segment and its external segment equals the product of the lengths of the other secant segment and its external segment.
-> When a secant segment and a tangent segment are drawn to a circle from an external point, the product of the lengths of the secant segment and its external segment is equal to the square of the length of the tangent segment.
-> In a cyclic quadrilaterals (If a quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle, it is called a cyclic quadrilateral),opposite angles are supplementary.(Hence, rectangles or squares are the only parallelograms that can be inscribed in a circle.)
-> (Ptolemey’s Theoren) The product of the lengths of the diagonals is equal to the sum of the products of the lengths of the two pairs of opposite sides.
-> When a circle is circumscribed about an equilateral triangle, and chords are drawn from any point on the circle to the three vertices of the triangle, then the length of the longest chord is equal to the sum of the lengths of the other two chords.
-> Euler’s formula for polyhedron: f+v-e=2 (The number of faces plus the number of vertices minus the number of edges equals 2.
-> There are only 5 regular polyhedron: tetrahedron (4 triangles), hexahedron (a cube, 6 squares), Octahedron (8 triangles), dodecahedron (12 pentagons), and icosahedron (20 triangles).
-> If the scale factor of two similar polygons is a:b, the ratio of their areas is a2:b2.
-> If the scale factor of two similar solids is a:b, the ratio of the lengths of two corresponding edges is a:b.
-> If the scale factor of two similar solids is a:b. the ratio of their surface areas is a2:b2.
-> If the scale factor of two similar solids is a:b. the ratio of their volumes is a3:b3.
-> Heron’s Formula: If a triangle has sides of length a, b and c and s=(a+b+c)/2, then the area of the triangle is sqrt(s*(s-a)*(s-b)*(s-c)).
-> If a rectangle is of a size that when a square is cut off of an end the remaining rectangle is similar to the original, the rectangle is said to be a “golden rectangle” and its sides are said to be in the “golden ratio”. This ratio is 1:x, where x is the positive root of x2-x-1=0. (x=(1+sqrt(5))/2)(This is also the limit as k goes to infinity of two consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence)
-> The area of the triangle that has vertices with coordinates (x1, y1), (x2, y2), and (x3, y3) can be found by the absolute value of the determinant of the matrix:x1 y1 1x2 y2 1x3 y3 1This can be generalized to any polygon.
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