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Some Metric Properties and a Constructive Task of a Semi-Regular 2n-Sides Polygon

Received: 13 May 2020    Accepted: 8 June 2020    Published: 17 June 2020
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A simple polygon that either has equal all sides or all interior angles is called a semi-regular polygon. In terms of this definition, we can distinguish between two types of semi-regular polygons: equilateral polygons (that have equal all sides and different interior angles) and equiangular polygons (that have equal interior angles and different sides). To analyze the metric properties of semi-regular polygons, knowing only one basic element, e.g. the length of a side, as in regular polygons, is not enough. Therefore, in addition to the side of a semi-regular polygon, we use another characteristic element of it to analyze the metric features, and that is the angle δ=∠(a,b) between the side of a semi-regular polygon PN and the side b of its inscribed regular polygon PN. Some metric properties of a semi-regular equilateral 2n-sides polygon are analyzed in this paper with respect to these two characteristic elements. Some of the problems discussed in the paper are: convexity, calculation of surface area, dependence on the length of sides a and δ, calculation of the radius of the inscribed circle depending on the sides a and angles δ, and calculation of the surface area in which the radius of the inscribed circle is known, as well as the relationship between them. It has been shown that the formula for calculating the surface area of regular polygons results from the formula for the surface area of 2n-side semi-regular, equilateral polygons. Further, by using these results, it has been shown that the cross-sections of regular polygons inscribed to semi-regular equilateral polygons, the vertices of equiangular semi-regular polygons, as well as the sides of the regular polygons inscribed to it, intersect in the same manner at the vertices of the equilateral semi-regular polygon. It has further been shown that the sides of the equiangular semi-regular polygon refer to each other as the sines of the angles created by the sides of the inscribed polygons and the side of the semi-regular polygon.

Published in American Journal of Applied Mathematics (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajam.20200804.12
Page(s) 176-181
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Keywords

Semi-Regular Polygons, Surface Ratio, Equilateral and Equiangular Semi-Regular Polygons

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