Segment of a circle (Exact form answer)

mercredi 17 septembre 2014

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data



Find the circle segment area that has the boundaries of line segment AB and the minor arc ACB.



Give the area in an exact form in terms of surds and Pi. (see attachments for annotated picture & original question).



2. Relevant equations



Equation 1: Area of a segment = Sector area - Triangle area



Equation 2: Sector area = Central angle/360 * pi * diameter



Equation 3: Triangle area = 0.5 * base * height



3. The attempt at a solution



Area of sector = 120/360 * pi * 4

Simplified = 1/3 * pi/1 * 4/1 = 4/3 * pi [Units squared]



Area of one of the triangle = 0.5 * 1√3 * 1

Combined triangle area = 0.5 √3 x 2 = 1√3



Segment area = (4 * pi/3 - √3) [Units squared]

Approximated answer = 2.4567




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File Type: png Circle segment.png (61.3 KB)
File Type: png Original question.png (23.0 KB)







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