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You only need elementary
trigonometry and scalar products
Given any right-angled
triangle
on a sphere of unit radius,
right angled at
, and with
lengths of sides
and
,
then Pythagoras' Theorem in
Spherical Geometry is
Prove this result. Find a triangle containing three right angles on the surface of a sphere of unit radius. What are the lengths of the sides of your triangle? Use the Pythagoras' Theorem result above to prove that all spherical triangles with three right angles on the unit sphere are congruent to the one you found. |