Day1 - Arcs, Chords, and Central Angles
Day1 - Arcs, Chords, and Central Angles
Day1 - Arcs, Chords, and Central Angles
Soil Erosion
Have you heard of … The Dust Bowl
Causes:
Drought
Erosion of soil
1930 – 1936
What did they do to prevent this phenomenon
from happening again?
Congress established the Soil Erosion Service and the
Prairie States Forestry Project in 1935.
What figure do you see?
CONTOUR FARMING/PLOWING
The practice of planting crops in curves along a hill
ARCS, CHORDS,
and CENTRAL
ANGLES
Objectives:
1. Identify the arcs related to a given central angle
2.
✪ endpoints are D
endpoints of the
diameter A
✪ measures 180°
mBDF = 180°
F
semicircle BDF
BDF
Exercise: Using the figure below, provide what is asked.
1. a minor arc
2. a major arc
3. a semicircle
4. a central angle
5. the minor arc
relative to ∠CPE
Exercise: Using to the figure below, provide what is
asked.
90° H
MA ≅ THM TBLU ≅
THEOREM:
In the same circle, or in congruent circles, two
minor arcs are congruent if and only if their
central angles are congruent.
C
A L E
H
90° B R
M 60° 60°
MA ≅ TH T BLU ≅
U D
THEOREM:
In the same circle, or in congruent circles, two
minor arcs are congruent if and only if their
chords are congruent.
H
E
HP ≅ PE iff HP ≅ PE. O
P
Exercise: Find the measures of the indicated arcs. Tell
whether they are congruent or not. Justify.
AB and DC
CONGRUENT
XY and
NOT ZW
QP and RS CONGRUENT
CONGRUENT
ADJACENT NON-OVERLAPPING
ARCS
⬥ two arcs of a circle
⬥ have exactly one point in common
H N
AN & TN ☑
TA & HN ☒
K
T
POSTULATE: Arc Addition Postulate
The measure of an arc formed by two adjacent
non-overlapping arcs is the sum of the
measures of those two arcs.
V
O
mLV + mVE = mLE
E
Find the indicated measure
60°
180 °
220 °
300 °
100 °
40 °
Think about this.
• The Ferris wheel on the right
had equally spaced seats such
that the measure of each
central angle is 20◦.
✓ Central angle
✓ Types of arcs
✓ Congruent arcs
✓ Adjacent nonoverlapping
arcs
✓