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3 Circle
Introduction
You have scen several circular-shapcd objects likecoins,
wheels of a bicycle. plates, edges of a tea cup, ctc.
Look at thefigure. Point O is marked on asheet of
paper and the needle of the compass is placed at
0. The pencil is moving round point O.
When the
pencil makes a complete round, a figure is forncd.
The closed figure so formed in this way is a
Point Oi_ the centre of the circle. Every circle.
the edge of point on
the circle is at the same distance from
the centre.
The outer boundary or the perimeter of a circle is called
distance between the centre of the circle and any point on its circumference. The
the circle. edge is the radius ot
In the figure, a circle is drawn. Its centre is at O.
It is the circle ABC. OA, OB, OC are
equal. The
length of OA is the radius of the circle.
AB =AO + OB =2 x radius. B
The line, AB through O (the centre), is called the
diameter of the circle.
The parts, AC, BC, AB of the circunmference of the Arc
( circle are its arcs. These are written as AC, BC,AB. T
The line segment joining two points of the
circumference of a circle is called a chord. So, PO.
RS, RT, MN are all chords.
N
The chord, RT which passes through the centre, 0
is the diameter of the circle. R
P M
Achord which pasSses through the centre of a circle is called a
NOTE diameter.
Adiameter is the longest chord in a circle.
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