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Which is a secant?
Secant is a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
How many tangent lines could be draw on a straight line?
A tangent line is a line that is parallel to and intersecting a point on a curve, where the limit of the distance between two points on that curve (one of them being the point in question) and those two points also being on that line approaches zero. Since a straight line has only one slope, at all points on the line, then there can only be one tangent line to a straight line, and the tangent line is the same line as the straight line.
What is a straight path connecting two points and extending infinitely in both directions?
Line
What is the shortest distance between a straight line and a curve?
If you translate (move without rotation) a copy of the line towards the curve, the first point where the line touches the curve (the tangent to the curve with the slope of the original line) will be the point on the curve closest to the line. Draw a connecting line from this tangent point to the original line, intersecting that original line at right angles. Measure the connecting segment. It is the shortest distance. Vector analysis will give a mathematically strict solution, I do not have the ability to explain this in sufficient detail.
What is the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference?
Diameter.
What is the difference between an arc and a chord?
If you take two distinct points on a curve, the arc is the part of the curve connecting the two points while the chord is the straight line connecting them.
What is a straight line that intersects a curve?
A straight line that intersects a circle or curve at two points, but which has both end points outside the circle or curve is called a secant. A straight line that links two points on a circle or curve is called a chord. A straight line which touches a circle or curve at one point is called a tangent. A straight line that cuts a circle or curve at one point is a straight line.* For moving diagrams see Related links below this box.
A straight curve with no end points?
You had us baffled at "straight curve" . Could you mean if you start at the north pole, walk in a straight line, you will eventually get back to the north pole and round in a circle. Hence a straight line but no end points.
Which is a secant?
Secant is a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
What is a curve?
A geometrical curve is defined as any set of points. Therefore, counter-intuitively, a straight line is also a geometrical curve.
What makes a line a line?
A line is a straight path connecting two points and continuing on in both directions past the points. If it starts and ends only at the points then it is a line segment.
How many tangent lines could be draw on a straight line?
A tangent line is a line that is parallel to and intersecting a point on a curve, where the limit of the distance between two points on that curve (one of them being the point in question) and those two points also being on that line approaches zero. Since a straight line has only one slope, at all points on the line, then there can only be one tangent line to a straight line, and the tangent line is the same line as the straight line.
What do you call a straight line joining two points on an arc curve or circle?
A chord.
What is a straight path connecting two points and extending infinitely in both directions?
Line
What is a chord in geometry?
A straight line connecting two points on the circumference of a circle
Whatdoes the word chord mean in math?
It is a straight line joining two different points on a curve which does not cross the curve between those two points.
What is the diameter circumference?
Diameter is the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere and connecting two points on the circumference of the circle or the surface of the sphere. Circumference is the length of the closed curve of a circle.
