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  2. The Method of Mechanical Theorems - Wikipedia

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    The condition of balance ensures that the volume of the cone plus the volume of the sphere is equal to the volume of the cylinder. The volume of the cylinder is the cross section area, times the height, which is 2, or . Archimedes could also find the volume of the cone using the mechanical method, since, in modern terms, the integral involved ...

  3. Divisor (algebraic geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Let X be the quadric cone of dimension 2, defined by the equation xy = z 2 in affine 3-space over a field. Then the line D in X defined by x = z = 0 is not principal on X near the origin. Note that D can be defined as a set by one equation on X , namely x = 0; but the function x on X vanishes to order 2 along D , and so we only find that 2 D is ...

  4. Area - Wikipedia

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    the relationship between square feet and square inches is 1 square foot = 144 square inches, where 144 = 12 2 = 12 × 12. Similarly: 1 square yard = 9 square feet; 1 square mile = 3,097,600 square yards = 27,878,400 square feet; In addition, conversion factors include: 1 square inch = 6.4516 square centimetres; 1 square foot = 0.092 903 04 ...

  5. Water tower - Wikipedia

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    Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank (1875, restored 2012), Beaumont, Kansas, US. Although the use of elevated water storage tanks has existed since ancient times in various forms, the modern use of water towers for pressurized public water systems developed during the mid-19th century, as steam-pumping became more common, and better pipes that could handle higher pressures ...

  6. Moment of inertia - Wikipedia

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    Here, the function gives the mass density at each point (,,), is a vector perpendicular to the axis of rotation and extending from a point on the rotation axis to a point (,,) in the solid, and the integration is evaluated over the volume of the body . The moment of inertia of a flat surface is similar with the mass density being replaced by ...

  7. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    Cone with cross-sections. The diagram represents a cone with its axis AV. The point A is its apex. An inclined cross-section of the cone, shown in pink, is inclined from the axis by the same angle θ, as the side of the cone. According to the definition of a parabola as a conic section, the boundary of this pink cross-section EPD is a parabola.

  8. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    One problem is considered to be of particular importance because it gives a method for finding the volume of a frustum (truncated pyramid). Finally, the Berlin Papyrus 6619 (c. 1800 BC) shows that ancient Egyptians could solve a second-order algebraic equation .

  9. Density of air - Wikipedia

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    This means that at this layer L = 0 and T = 220 K, so that the exponential drop is faster, with H TP = 6.3 km for air (6.5 for nitrogen, 5.7 for oxygen and 4.2 for carbon dioxide). Both the pressure and density obey this law, so, denoting the height of the border between the troposphere and the tropopause as U :