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18 Tangents

from an External Po

Learning Objective: from an extermal point to a circle are equal.


lo show that the lengths of tangents drawn

Previous knowledge:
A circle and terms related to the circle
i) at a point.
line that touches the circle
circle is the
i) Tangent to a
a secant.
ii) Difference between a tangent and
or contact and point from where it i
whera
distance between the point
iv) Length of a tangent is the
drawn.

Materials required
i) White chart paper
ii) Coloured glazed paper (yellow colour)
ii) A pair of scissors
iv) Geometry box

v An adhesive

vi) Sketch pens


vii) Fevicol

Procedure x 10cm. Kep


Take the yellow colour sheet and cut two rectangular sheets of dimensions 15cm
i) below the other and draw a circle of radius 5 cm on
both the yellow
the rectangular sheets one
colour rectangular sheets (The circles on each paper are identical)
aste
outside the circle on both the sheets. Ps
ii) Mark the centre of the circle as '0'and take a point
oneof the sheets on the drawing sheet as shown in fig 18.1.
her
Takethe oth rectangular sheet and fold it in such a manner that the crease
Take tnwactly
at exactly
one point. Let this point be P. Draw a
one through A meets the
line AP along the crease. AP is a
tangent
c i r c l e

Cecircle from A as shown in fig 18.2


t o t h ec i r c l

Fig 18.2

Repeatthe step
tangent AQ as shown in fig 18.3
(11i) to get anotherta
iv)

Fig 18.3

Draw OA, OP and OQ as shown in fig 18.4


v

Fig 18.4

0QA green as
shown in fig 18.5
red and the triangle
1) Colour the triangle OPA

Fig 18.5
triangle 0QA as shown in fig 18.6
vii) Cut off the triangle OPA and the

A O
Fig 18.6

Vii) Place the triangle OPA over the triangle OQA as shown in fig 18.7

P(Q)

Fig 18.7

Observation
We observe that the triangle OPA exactly covers the triangle OQA
A OPA = A 0QA. This shows AP = AQ

Conclusion:
The lengths of tangents, drawn from an external point to a circle are equal.

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