 | J. A. Beil - 1855 - 756 páginas
...angles of spherical triangles) * Die spharische Trigonometric * Trigonometric/, spherique. Spheroid s. (a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes) (Geom.) * Das Drehungs-Ellipsoid, Rotations-Ellipsoid, SpMro'fd * Ellipsoi'de »n. de revolution.)... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 páginas
...cube that may be cut from a sphere 30 inches in diameter ? Ans. 17.32-)- feet. THE SPHEROID. ART. 352. A SPHEROID is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its longer or transverse diameter, the spheroid is prolate... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1857 - 336 páginas
...cube that may be cut from a sphere 30 inches in diameter ? Ans. 17.32-f feet. THE SPHEROID. ART. 366. A SPHEROID is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its longer or transverse diameter, the spheroid is prolate,... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1859 - 494 páginas
...and hyperbola have each two foci: but the parabola has only one focus. 15. A spheroid or ellipsoid is a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the revolution be made about the transverse diameter, the solid is called a prolate spheroid... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - 1860 - 410 páginas
...generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis. (L , prolalus, lengthened.) An OBLATE SPHEROID is a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis. (L., oblatas, flattened.) NOTE.— The figuro of the earth is that of an oblate *pf4eroi(t.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1861 - 338 páginas
...may be inscribed in a sphere 10 inches in diameter ? Ans. 5.773-f- inches. THE SPHEROID. ART. 366. A SPHEROID is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its longer or transverse diameter, the spheroid is prolate,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 páginas
...height. This is a figure produced by the rotation of a parabola upon Us avis. 6. Spheroid. — This is a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. To find its capacity multiply the square of the revolving axis by the fixed axis, and that product... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1864 - 412 páginas
...surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as, Fig. 23. 357. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of -p-llr 24 its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its major diameter the spheroid is called prolate.... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1868 - 360 páginas
...surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as Fig. 22. 3 14. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its major diameter the spheroid is called prolate. If about... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - 1869 - 532 páginas
...surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, Fig. 22. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its major diameter the spheroid is called prolate. If about... | |
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A SPHEROID is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters. If the ellipse revolves about its longer or... 
