1. Do your blog post or a comment tonight?

(1 day of class left in November)

2. You can work in partners on this assignment if you want.

PART A

1. Create a circle.

2. Create a point somewhere outside the circle.

3. Make a line from this point to the edge of the circle, so the line barely touches the circle.

4. Make a radius from this point to the centre of the circle.

5. Measure the angle between the radius and the line.

6. What is this angle?

7. Paste your GeoGebra Screen shot below. (Should look something like this)

8. This line is called a tangent line (if it touches the circle exactly once). What do you think the
measure of the angle the tangent line makes at the radius should be?

PART B

1. Create a circle.

2. Create a point away from the circle.

3. Use the tangent tool to create 2 tangents from this point to the circle.

4. Create points where the tangents intersect the circle.

 5. Create radii at these points.

6. Measure the angle to confirm Part A above.

7. Paste your GeoGebra Screen shot below. (Should look something like this)

8. Continue to use the same diagram.

9. Measure the distance from the point of tangency (on the circle) to the point away from the

circle. Do this on both tangent line segments.

10. What do you notice about the length of both of these segments?

11. Paste your drawing below.

PART C

This is the trickiest notion in this whole unit. Take it slow.

1. Create a circle, a point (named A) outside the circle, and two tangents (as in Part B).

2. Create a point (named E) at one of the points of tangency.

3. Create another point (named F) on the circle. (This should be between A and E.)

4. Join these two points to form a chord (EF).

5. Create another point (named G) across from this chord on the circle.

6. Measure the angle AEF (between the chord and the tangent).

7. Measure angle EGF.

8. What do you notice about these two measures?
9. Move point E around. What do you continue to notice about the angle measurements?

10. Paste your drawing below.

Don’t cheat, but go down to the end of the document to see what you just learned:
PART D

Look at this example from the text book.

PART E

Complete this exercise from the text book:

PART F

1. Use what you know about GeoGebra and tangents to draw and solve these questions. Paste
your GeoGebra screens into this document.
2. Answer all of these questions, but only draw 2 in GeoGebra. You will need the Pythagorean
Theorem to solve them without GeoGebra: !!!!!!Paste your screen shots after the Palm tree
below!!!!!

a) x = ___ b) x = ___
y = ___ y = ___
c) x = ___
y = ___

e) x = ___°
y = ___°

a) x = ___°
y = ___°

3a) x = ___°
y = ___°

c) x = ___°
y = ___°
11. Drawing #1

12. Drawing #2
What you learned in Part C – the angle between the tangent line and a chord is the same as the
inscribed angle opposite the chord.