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Circle Sector and Segment: Slices

This document defines and explains different parts of a circle including sectors, segments, semicircles, and quadrants. It provides formulas to calculate the area of a sector and segment using the central angle and radius. For a sector, the area is one-half of the central angle times the radius squared. For a segment, the area is one-half of the central angle minus the sine of the central angle times the radius squared.

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Circle Sector and Segment: Slices

This document defines and explains different parts of a circle including sectors, segments, semicircles, and quadrants. It provides formulas to calculate the area of a sector and segment using the central angle and radius. For a sector, the area is one-half of the central angle times the radius squared. For a segment, the area is one-half of the central angle minus the sine of the central angle times the radius squared.

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Circle Sector and Segment

Slices
There are two main "slices" of a circle :

The "pizza" slice is called a Sector.

And the slice made by a chord is


called a Segment.

Common Sectors
The Quadrant and Semicircle are two special types of Sector:

Half a circle is
a Semicircle.

Quarter of a circle is
a Quadrant.

Area of a Sector
You can work out the Area of a Sector by comparing its angle to the angle of a
full circle. Note: we are using radians for the angles.

This is the reasoning:


A circle has an angle of 2 and an Area of:
A Sector with an angle of

(instead of 2) has an Area of:


Which can be simplified to:

Area of Sector =
Area of Sector = (

r2

(when

/180) r2

r2
(/2) r2
(/2) r2

is in radians)

(when

is in degrees)

Arc Length
By the same reasoning, the arc length
(of a Sector or Segment) is:
L = r (when is in radians)
L = ( /180) r (when is in
degrees)

Area of Segment
The Area of a Segment is the area of a sector
minus the triangular piece (shown in light blue
here).
There is a lengthy reason, but the result is a
slight modification of the Sector formula:

Area of Segment = ( - sin ) r2

(when is in radians)

Area of Segment = ( ( /180) - sin ) r2

(when is in degrees)

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