Area And Circumference of a Circle : pi
March 2nd, 2008
This is a basic guide to using pi to find the area and circumference of a circle using pi. And also explores why pi makes our formulae work.
area =πr2
circumference = 2πr or πd
where r = radius and d=diameter
Area
First lets look at the area of a circle, given by area =πr2. This is simple enough to use, we multiply the radius by itself and then by pi.
Does this make sense?
Well r squared is at least going to be an area but it might be a bit small so we multiply by pi. However this doesn’t explain much until we consider what pi is, the easiest way i find to do this is as follows
If we imagine a square that the circle fits inside perfectly(so it touches all four sides like the one above) r squared would give us one quadrant, so the area of that square is 4 x r2 . Of course the circle’s area is a bit smaller so we need to find the ratio between the areas of the square and circle. If we then times this value by four we have a magic constant to multiply r squared by to find the area of a circle (we times by four because we need the area of 4 quadrants and r squared gives us one).
Now this magic constant is pi (which makes sense being just over 3, meaning the area of the circle is just over 3/4 of the area of the square).
Circumference
The circumference of a circle is given by 2πr or πd. This seems simple, we just multiply the diameter (2r) by our magic constant pi.
Does this also make sense?
seeing as we only have one r this time so only one length it seems we are just finding a factor to increase the length by to make a different length(the circumference) which makes sense.
Again lets consider the square into which our circle fits perfectly, the perimeter of this square would be 4 time the length of one of the sides.
Now the length of the sides = the diameter so the perimeter is 4d.
Notice again that the value we are trying to find for the square is multiplied by 4, but for a circle we are going to need a ratio that is a bit smaller.
So we need to replace the 4, for a square, with another, smaller, number — it seems pi will do the job.
Conclusion
To me when i consider pi i don’t look at it as a magical fundamental constant, but more a magical fundamental constant multiplied by four, because when I consider how these formula work using pi this is how they seem to work.
So this new constant is really the ratio of
area of square to area of circle
perimeter of square to circumference of circle.
perimeter of square to circumference of circle.
and it = pi/4 = 0.785398….
so if you have a value for a square and you want a similar value for the circle you just need to multiply it by this number and you’ll have your answer.
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how do you find the circomfrance of a cirlcle, when they give you the area???
the area is pi x r square
and the circumference is 2 x pi x r
so we can find are from square root of the area divided by pi
and times this by 2 pi to find the circumference
Thank you, its really helped me with my maths homweork.
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How do i find the diameter when i am given the area?
re arrange a=pi x rsqaured and u get
r=sqaureroot of area/pi
then double it to find the diameter
how you get area of a cirlcle from the circumfrence
circumference is 2x pi x r and area is pi x r x r
so, area = pi x square(circumference/2 x pi)
area = circumference squared / 4 pi
hope that helps
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area = circumference squared / 4 pi
that part
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why pi, but not 22/7
22/7? wasn’t that just an approximation of pi used before they invented calculators.
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how do you find the area of 3/4 of a circle?
also how do you find the area of 1/4 of a circle?
just multiply the area of the whole circle by 3/4 or 1/4. For any part of a circle where you know the angle at the middle you can multiply the area of the whole circle by that angle divided by 360 (or 2pi if your using radians)
why is the pi of 500 decimal number different from that of 10 or maybe 100
hey um if there is a circle inside a square and the radius is 14 but the square has no measurement how do i find the anwser (all angles are right angles)
well the radius of the circle will be 1/2 the length of on of the sides so each side will be of length 28
assuming the circle touches all four sides of the sqaure
why in the world we use Pi to calculate area of a circle?
how do u find the area of the diameter.
xD
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Hi All,
Would you know the latest new exact formula for calculating Pi Number? If so please visit to this link:
http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=148.
At the link I’ve been posting general exact formula for Pi Number in form of the sum two arcsin. Maybe useful for you.Thx.
Best Regards,
Rohedi.
true value of pi is (14-root 2)/4=3.1464466… i will send my work if you let me know your postal address.
thank you sir
yours sincerely
rsj reddy
what do you mean by the “pi of 500″?