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Week 1 Syllabus
Reading
- Bix, Section 13, including some of the problems.
- Handout from Geometry Turned On.
- Bix, Sections 4 and 5 give an alternate view of the Euler
line and the Nine-Point Circle.
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445 Monday, January 4
Introduction to dilations and similarities. Items 1-7 in Study Outline. Also 16.
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445 Wednesday, January 6
Construction of images of points and centers of similitude.
Also, composition of dilations and geometric consequences.
Items 8,9 (constructions) in Study Outline.
Also 12-14.(composition).
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487 Computer Lab 1, Wednesday, January
6
This lab explores the basic constructions of dilations and
centers of simitudes, with applications to circle geometry, problem
solving, Menelaus theorem and the beginning of the Euler line
and the nine-point circle (if time permits).
Link to Lab Sheet 1.
These topics in the Study Outline are
items 8-11, 13-17, 20-24.
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445 Friday, January 1/6
Euler line and nine-point circle. Items 20-26 in Study
Outline. .
Lab Assignment A due.
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Assignment 1 is due on Monday, 1/11.
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