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Circular segment
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In geometry, a circular segment (also circle segment) is an area of a circle informally defined as an area which is "cut off" from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord. The circle segment constitutes the part between the secant and an arc, excluding the circle's center.

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1 Formulas 1.1 Area 2 See also 3 External links

Formulas
Let R be the radius of the circle, is the central angle, c the chord length, s the arc length, h the height of the segment, and d the height of the triangular portion. The radius is The arc length is The chord length is , where is in radians.

The height is
A circular segment (in green) is enclosed between a secant/chord (the dashed line) and the arc whose endpoints equal the chord's (the arc shown above the green area).

The angle is

Area
The area of the circular segment is equal to the area of the circular sector minus the area of the triangular portion.

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See also
Circular sector Arc Conic section Cross section

External links
Weisstein, Eric W., "Circular segment (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CircularSegment.html) " from MathWorld. Definition of a circular segment (http://www.mathopenref.com/segment.html) With interactive animation Formulae for area of a circular segment (http://www.mathopenref.com/segmentarea.html) With interactive animation Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_segment" Categories: Circles This page was last modified on 25 October 2010 at 18:54. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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