The sum of the areas of two isosceles triangles on given bases, the sum of whose perimeters is given, is greatest when the triangles are similar.
The spherical isosceles triangles AJB, BJC are congruent, and we see that AB can be brought into the position BC by a rotation about the axis OJ through an angle AJB.
These grooves are in section sharp-edged isosceles triangles.
Its fundamental form is an isosceles 4-sided pyramid; and the secondary forms have all a pyramidal character.
If we prove from the image or figure of an isosceles right triangle that the sum of its angles is equal to two right angles, how can we know that this proposition holds of all triangles?
The isosceles and scalenum are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right or wrong.
The dramatis persona in their relative positions first formed an isosceles triangle, then a scalene, afterwards a right line.
Of course this affection was of the isosceles kind,--Ben and Little William being the sides, and Snowball the base.
The sides of the isosceles triangle were gradually growing unequal,-- gradually and slowly, but, alas!
They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below water-mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle.
It was an adult, as was known by its six rows of teeth placed in an isosceles triangle in the upper jaw.
The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle do not obviously come within any of these.
The inquiry is, Are the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle equal or unequal?
No one could gainsay the deplorable fact that she had, as she supposed, been linked in lawful wedlock to Mr. Tutt's isosceles client.
The Grand Banner of this * shall be in the form of an isosceles triangle, five feet long and three wide at the staff.
Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth.
Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.
Then give all the children octagons, and bring out from them its description by sides and angles; and then fold it so as to make eight isosceles triangles.
Then let them fold the paper to make two parallelograms at right angles with the first two, and they will have two equal squares, and four equal isosceles triangles, which are equal to the two squares.
Now fold the unfolded square into oblongs, and make a crease, and they will find, on unfolding again, that they have six isosceles triangles, two of them being twice as large as any one of the other four.
The cube is the most stable of them because resting on a quadrangular plane surface, and composed of isosceles triangles.
Now of the two triangles, the isosceles has one form only; the scalene or unequal-sided has an infinite number.
The fourth regular solid, or cube, is formed by the combination of four isosceles triangles into one square and of six squares into a cube.
The real elements are two triangles, the rectangular isosceles which has but one form, and the most beautiful of the many forms of scalene, which is half of an equilateral triangle.
The normals to a warped surface along a generatrix form an isosceles paraboloid.
The lines of striction of the scalene paraboloid are parabolas; those of the isosceles paraboloid are straight lines.
Thus we have to construct an isosceles triangle, having the angle at the vertex equal to half an angle at the base.
The solutions all depend upon properties of isosceles triangles.
If the last proposition be applied to an isosceles triangle, which has two sides equal, we obtain the theorem (Prop.
The birth of a True Equilateral Triangle from Isosceles parents is the subject of rejoicing in our country for many furlongs round.
I saw your Isosceles servants, three in number, in the kitchen at supper, and the little Page in the scullery.
A Male of the lowest type of the Isosceles may look forward to some improvement of his angle, and to the ultimate elevation of the whole of his degraded caste; but no Woman can entertain such hopes for her sex.
Amongst our lowest orders, the vocal organs are developed to a degree more than correspondent with those of hearing, so that an Isosceles can easily feign the voice of a Polygon, and, with some training, that of a Circle himself.
With them therefore the Law of Nature does not hold; and the son of an Isosceles (i.
Acting, therefore, as his interpreter and summarizer, I gather that in the course of an imprisonment of seven years he has himself modified his own personal views, both as regards Women and as regards the Isosceles or Lower Classes.
My notion triangle may denote the attributes three-sided and three-angled; my notion isosceles triangle will in that case include at least these two qualities plus equality of two of the sides.
What if we change Isoscelesto Theodore, Mrs. Hopkins?
It was agreed upon at length by the trustees, that the Cynthia Badlam Fund for Educational Purposes should be applied for the benefit of the two foundlings known as Isosceles and Helminthia Hopkins.
So likewise if we join m·b in the perspective figure will m·Ab be the same isosceles triangle in perspective.
Now AB = Am·, and if we join bm· then triangle BAm· is an isosceles triangle.
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