Honors geometry compass test Flashcards
Duplicating segments
Line segments, using the compass measuring the lines exact length and making a mark on a much longer line(that was drawn with a straight edge)markings going the right direction is adding and markings going the left direction is subtracting.
Duplicating angles
Make a random ray, then on the original angle make a arc, copy the same arc on the ray, and then going back to the original arc measure the knees and make that arc on the ray,
Perpendicular bisectors
The football thing
Perpendicular to a line
Smile and football, its altitude so start the compass at the highest point and make sure the pencil is below the line.
Angle Bisector
Skirt and then make a cross in space using the knees of the arc.
Incentor
Angle bisection(Skirt Crossing)(Circle around)
Orthocenter
Altitudes
Circumcenter
Perpbisectors Football
Centroid
Median(Football connects to opposite vertex)