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A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord.
Archimedes in his The Quadrature of the Parabola used the sum of a geometric series to compute the area enclosed by a parabola and a straight line. Archimedes' theorem states that the total area under the parabola is 4/3 of the area of the blue triangle. His method was to dissect the area into infinite triangles as shown in the adjacent figure ...
Archimedes encounters the series in his work Quadrature of the Parabola. He finds the area inside a parabola by the method of exhaustion, and he gets a series of triangles; each stage of the construction adds an area 1 / 4 times the area of the previous stage. His desired result is that the total area is 4 / 3 times the area of ...
Known as the method of exhaustion, Archimedes employed it in several of his works, including an approximation to π (Measurement of the Circle), [56] and a proof that the area enclosed by a parabola and a straight line is 4/3 times the area of a triangle with equal base and height (Quadrature of the Parabola). [57] Archimedes also showed that ...
In Quadrature of the Parabola, Archimedes proved that the area enclosed by a parabola and a straight line is 4 / 3 times the area of a corresponding inscribed triangle as shown in the figure at right. He expressed the solution to the problem as an infinite geometric series with the common ratio 1 / 4 :
The area bounded by the intersection of a line and a parabola is 4/3 that of the triangle having the same base and height (the quadrature of the parabola); The area of an ellipse is proportional to a rectangle having sides equal to its major and minor axes; The volume of a sphere is 4 times that of a cone having a base of the same radius and ...
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The area of the surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of the circle formed by a great circle of this sphere. The area of a segment of a parabola determined by a straight line cutting it is 4/3 the area of a triangle inscribed in this segment. For the proofs of these results, Archimedes used the method of exhaustion attributed to ...