what is perimeter of circle
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What is the perimeter of a circle?
Answer-
A perimeter of any shape is the total length of the edges of the shape. Simply put, it is the length of the boundary of a shape. In a triangle, it would be the total length of the three sides. In ta square, it would be the total length of the four sides. Similarly in a circle, it is the length of its one edge.
Formulae for calculating the perimeter of a circle-
2πr or πd
Where,
r = radius of the circle
d = diameter of the circle.
Derivation of the formulae of the perimeter of a circle-
Proving that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is fixed for any circle:
This is quite easy to prove because all circles are similar.
Consider two small arcs AB and CD of two circles of radii x and y units, both of which make an angle of measure θ at the centers P and Q respectively.
For smaller values of θ, the arc length is almost equal to the length of the line segment . Since the angle θ is the same in both the triangles APB and CQD, and the ratio AP : PB = CQ : QD = 1 : 1, using the SAS rule of triangle similarity, ΔAPB is similar to ΔCQD. Therefore, It follows that AB : AP = CD : CQ.
In other words, for all values of the angle θ, the ratios : CQ are equal. It follows that the ratio circumference : radius, which is equivalent to saying the ratio circumference : diameter is constant for any circle.
If this constant is equal to some number π, then circumference = π × diameter, or circumference = 2π × radius. Hence proved.
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