Circles

Lines in Circles
Lines outside of Circles
Arcs and Angles of Circles
Definitions of Multiple Circles

Outline of Presentation

Definition of Circle
Lines inside circle
Lines outside of a circle
Arcs
Multiple Circles

Concentric circles

 Circle
Circle:
Named by its center
set of all points on a
plane equidistance from
its center.
A circle has 360

Lines IN a circle
Radius: the distance
from the center to any
point on the circle .
Chord: a segment
whose endpoints lie
on the circle.
Diameter: a chord that
contains the center.

center
radius

 Lines OUTSIDE a circle

Secant: a line that
intersects a circle at 2
points.
Tangent: a line in the
plane of a circle that
intersects the circle in
exactly ONE point.
Point of tangency: the
ONE point of the line
that intersects with the
circle

You Try:

Tangent

HT

Chord

DF or
BC

Diameter

BC

Secant

MN

Radius

OC or
OB

Name of
Circle

 Angles and Arcs

Arc of a circle
consists of two
points on the
circle and a
continuous part
of the circle
between them.
Semicircles: of a
circle named with 3
points
180 in a semicircle

Major Arc

Minor Arc

Arc
Major arc
P

Minor arc

A
PRT
PT
R
T

Semi-circle
PTR

Central Angles
central angle an angle
with its vertex at the
center of the circle.

Congruent circles: are circles that have

congruent radii.

6cm

Concentric circles are circles that lie

in the same plane and have the
same center.

Inscribed
polygon

Each vertex
is a Point of
tangency

Circle is
circumscribed
about the polygon