GENERAL FORMULAE FOR ANY REGULAR POLYGON

[Journal No. Vol.XL, No.2, June.2006, Published by Mathematics Education (India), Siwan (Bihar)]

KEY WORDS
Regular polygon, Inscribed circle and Circum circle

SCOPE OF DERIVATION OF FORMULA

In Geometric, right-angled regular polygon is one of the two-dimensional plane having n-sides, all sides
equal length and equal angle and which is very important to solve problems related to Geometry and
sometimes in other subject also.
We know already the following four basic formulae (Ref: fig. 1)
n a2
1. Area of the polygon(A) = ( )
4 tan(θ°⁄ )
2
2. Perimeter of a polygon = na
𝑎
3. Radius of inscribed circle(r) = ( )
2 tan(θ°⁄2)
a
4. Radius of circum circle(R) =
2 sin(θ°⁄2)

Fig.1:

NEW FORMULA FOR POLYGON

In addition to these, Author has now developed some new formulae related to right-angled as follows:
Ref: fig. 7.3, If ‘n’ is odd number
𝑛 ∗
5. 𝑏 = 𝑎 + 2𝑎 {cos 𝜃° + cos 2 𝜃° +cos 3𝜃° + ⋯ … … + cos (( ) (θ°⁄2))}
4
 (𝑛 − 1)𝜃 °
6. ℎ = 𝑎 {𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝜃 ° + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 2𝜃 ° + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 3𝜃 ° + … … … … . . . + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 ( )}
2
Ref: fig. 7.2, If ‘n’ is even number
𝑛 ∗
7. 𝑏 = 2𝑎 {cos 𝜃° + cos 2𝜃° + cos 3𝜃° + … … … … + cos (( ) 𝜃°)}
4
(𝑛 − 2)𝜃°
8. ℎ = 𝑎 {𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝜃° + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 2𝜃° + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 3𝜃° + … … … … . + 𝑠𝑖𝑛 ( )}
2

Referring fig .2 & fig.3 (for ‘n’ is odd or even),

(i) If ‘f ‘ is an odd number,
(𝑓 − 1)𝜃° (𝑓 − 3)𝜃° 2𝜃°
9. 𝐴𝑃𝑓 = 𝑎 + 2𝑎 {cos [ ] + cos [ ] + ⋯ + cos [ ]}
2 2 2
(𝑓 + 2)𝜃° 𝑓𝜃° 3𝜃°
10. 𝐵𝑃𝑓 = 2𝑎 {𝑐𝑜𝑠 ( ) + 𝑐𝑜𝑠 ( ) + … . . + 𝑐𝑜𝑠 ( )}
2 2 2

Fig.2:

(ii) If ‘f ‘ is an even number,

(𝑓 − 1)𝜃° (𝑓 − 3)𝜃° 𝜃°
11. 𝐴𝑃𝑓 = 2𝑎 {cos ( ) + cos ( ) + ⋯ + cos ( )}
2 2 2
(𝑓 + 2)𝜃° 𝑓𝜃° 4𝜃°
12. 𝐵𝑃𝑓 = 𝑎 + 2𝑎 {cos ( ) + cos ( ) + … … . + cos ( )}
2 2 2
Ref: fig. 7.2 & 7.3
(𝑓 + 1)𝜃°
13. 𝛼𝑓 ° = ∠𝑋𝐴𝑃𝑓 = ( )
2
 Fig.3:

(𝑓 + 1)𝜃°
14. 𝛽𝑓 ° = ∠𝐴𝑃𝑓 𝑃𝑓−1 = ( )
2
(𝑓 + 1)𝜃°
15. 𝛾𝑓 ° = ∠𝐴𝑃𝑓 𝑃𝑓+1 = 180 − ( )
2
𝑓𝜃°
16. 𝛿𝑓 ° = ∠𝑋𝐵𝑃𝑓 =
2
𝑓𝜃°
17. 𝜇𝑓 ° = ∠𝐵𝑃𝑓 𝑃𝑓−1 =
2
(𝑓 + 2)𝜃°
18. Ψ𝑓 ° = ∠𝐵𝑃𝑓 𝑃𝑓+1 = 180 − ( )
2

Where,
3600
𝜃° =
𝑛
𝜑° = 180 − 𝜃°
n  Number of sides of the polygon.
Pf  ‘f’ th vertex point to be considered for evaluation.
 The integer value of n/4 shall be taken into account (not to be round off)