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I need some help with some of my homework, I can't figure it out.

I have a radius on a circle and a height from the circle to the chord.

I found this formula $ h=r \left(1-\cos \frac{v}{2} \right) $ And isolated it to $ v = \arccos \left( \frac{h/r -1}{2}\right) $ Not sure if that's correct. Then I input it in this formula $ A=r^2((\pi v)/360-(\sin v)/2) $ I have tried with a radius of 1000 and a height from the circle to the chord of 1000.

But it gives a wrong result.

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    When the radius and distance to the chord is e$x$actly the same, it should be the half of the circle. But it gives a wrong result, i am not sure whetever i mi$x$up radians and degress, or i isolated it wrong.2012-06-28

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The problem is that your solution is incorrect. You have the 2 factor in the wrong place. the correct solution is:

                    v=2arccos((1-h/r) 
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    In your example, the height to the chord is equal to the radius. Therefore the chord becomes a diameter and the angle subtended by a diameter is 180 degrees.2012-06-28
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Yep, that is correct:
$v=2\arccos(1-\frac{h}{r})$

And this is how we get it:

$\cos(\frac{v}{2}) = \frac{r-h}{r}$
$\cos(\frac{v}{2}) = 1-\frac{h}{r}$
$\frac{v}{2} = \arccos(1-\frac{h}{r})$
$v=2\arccos(1-\frac{h}{r})$

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