Quadrilaterals, Polygons - Regular Polygons, Circle
     Quadrilaterals
      Square
      Rhombus
      Rectangle
      Parallelogram
      Kite or deltoid
      Trapezium or trapezoid
      Isosceles trapezoid
      Cyclic quadrilateral
      Tangential quadrilateral
     Polygons
     Regular polygons
     Circle
      Central angle, inscribed angle
      Construction of a tangent from a point
      Circumference, length of an arc
      Circle and circular sector
      Circular segment
      Annulus and annulus segment
Quadrilaterals
Square
A square is a plane figure with four sides of equal length and four right angles.
The two diagonals, which are of equal length, bisect each other perpendicularly. 
The square has four axes of symmetry.
 
perimeter   P = 4a
area   A = a · a = a2 A = a2
Rhombus or rhomb
A rhombus is an oblique-angled parallelogram whose four sides are equal.
Rhombus diagonals bisect each other perpendicularly.
The rhombus is symmetrical about both of its diagonals.
 
perimeter   P = 4a
area    A = a · h     and
Rectangle
A rectangle is a plane figure with four straight sides, two parallel pairs of equal length forming four right 
angles.
The two diagonals of a rectangle have equal lengths.
The rectangle has two axes of symmetry.
 
diagonal
perimeter        P = 2(a + b)
area        A = a ·
Parallelogram
A parallelogram is a quadrilateral (plane figure with four sides) with opposite sides parallel and of equal 
length.
The opposite angles of a parallelogram are also equal. 
In the case in which the angles are all right angles the parallelogram is a rectangle, and when all the sides
are equal it is a rhombus.
 
perimeter        P = 2(a + b)
area        A = a ·
Kite or deltoid
A kite or deltoid is a quadrilateral with two pairs of equal adjacent sides. 
Two of the angles in a kite are opposite and equal.
The kite's diagonals cross perpendicularly, and one of them (the shorter one) is being bisected by the other.
 
perimeter      P = 2(a + b)
area   
Trapezium or trapezoid
A trapezium or trapezoid is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides of unequal length. 
The trapezium's median is a straight line joining the midpoints of nonparallel sides and parallel to the two
parallel sides.
 
a + d = 180°,  b + g = 180°   =>   a + b + g + d = 360°
median      m = 1/2(a + c),       area A = m ·
perimeter   P = a + b + c + d
A = c·h + 1/2(a - c)·h = 1/2(a + ch   A =1/2(a + ch
Isosceles trapezoid
A trapezoid with the two nonparallel sides of equal length and the angles opposite those sides equal, is called
an isosceles trapezoid.
 
a + b = 180°,
median      m = 1/2(a + c),       area A = m ·
perimeter   P = a + 2b + c
A = c·h + 1/2(a - c)·h = 1/2(a + ch   A =1/2(a + ch
Cyclic quadrilateral
A quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, so that all its vertices lie on the circumference is called a cyclic
quadrilateral.
The opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary.
 
a + g = b + d = 180°,
d1 · d2  = a  ·  c + b · d
perimeter    P = a + b + c + d,     s = 1/2
area
Tangential quadrilateral
A quadrilateral whose sides all lie tangent to the circle inscribed within the quadrilateral is called a tangential
quadrilateral.
 
s = a + c = b + d,
perimeter    P = a + b + c + d,     s = 1/2
area A = r · s
Polygons
A polygon is closed plane figure bounded by a number of straight line segments with the same number of
vertices.
The sum of interior angles is  (n - 2) · 180°, where n is the number of sides of a polygon. 
The sum of exterior angles of a polygon is 360°.
 
 dn - number of diagonals
b' - the exterior angle
dn = 1/2 · n · (n - 3)
Sn= (n - 2) · 180° - the sum of interior angles
Regular polygons
In a regular polygon all sides are equal and all its angles are equal.
The exterior angle of a regular polygon is b' = 360°/n, where n is the number of sides of a regular polygon. .
 a = b' = 360°/n b' - the exterior angle
b = 180° - b' = (n - 2) · 180°/n,     P = n · a
dn = 1/2 · n · (n - 3) - number of diagonals
A = 1/2 · n · a · r = 1/2P · r - area of a regular polygon
     Circle
      Central angle, inscribed angle
      Construction of a tangent from a point
      Circumference, length of an arc
      Circle and circular sector
      Circular segment
      Annulus and annulus segment
Circle
A circle is a set of points that are at the fixed distance (called the radius r) from a fixed point called the 
center O.
Central angle, inscribed angle
A central angle is double the inscribed angle (formed when two secant lines intersect on the circle) subtended
by the same arc.
Proof:  Angles b1 and b2 are external angles of the isosceles triangle's AOC and BOC, hence
b1 = 2a1b2 = 2a2a = a1+ a2    =>   b = b1+ b2 = 2(a1+ a2) = 2a
 
Inscribed angles subtended by the same arc are equal. An angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle.
Construction of a tangent from a point P to a circle c.
The midpoint of the line segment OP is the circumcenter of the quadrilateral PD1OD2. The lines PD1 and PD2 are tangents from P to the given circle c.
Circumference, the length of a circle - the perimeter:  
Length of an arc:
From the proportion  
Circle and circular sector
By substituting P = 2pr and R = r in the formula for the area of a regular polygon, obtained is the formula for
the area of a circle, that is :
 
substituting
Circular segment
The portion of a circle bounded by an arc and a chord is called a segment.
Symbols used in the formulas: c -chord, r -radius, h -height of a segment, A -area of a segment.
 
Annulus and annulus segment
Annulus or ring is the region enclosed between two concentric circles.
Annulus Annulus segment
   
 
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