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Additional activities for HW #25

 

  1. In hyperbolic geometry, do all triangles have incenters? How about circumcenters, othrocenters, and centroids?
    You probably noticed in Activity 9-3(3) that either all three altitudes intersect through a single point, or else none of them intersect at all. Is this true also with angle bisectors, perpendicular bisectors of sides, and medians? (Challenge problem: can you prove any of this?)
  2. Does the Parallel Projection Theorem hold in hyperbolic geometry? Explain why.
  3. Do there exist similar non-congruent triangles in hyperbolic geometry? Explain why.
  4. Given an angle, bisect it without using the "Bisect Angle" menu option in the non-Euclid Applet.
  5. Given a line segment, construct its perpendicular bisector without using the "Plot Midpoint" and the "Draw Perpendicular" menu options in the non-Euclid Applet.
  6. Given a circle C and a point P outside the circle, construct (using the non-Euclid Applet) a line through P tangent to C. You may not use the Constructions menu options "Draw segment of specific length" and "Draw ray at specific angle".

Updated: 31 August, 2009 17:44:19