Aim: What is the

Golden Section?
Presented by : Kamile
Perskaudaite, Nicole Maetta, Keith
Newman, and Rawan Abouzeid
O Also known as the Golden Ratio
O An irrational number, approximately
1.618, with special properties
O Interesting property: The reciprocal of
the Golden Ratio has the same decimal
integers (1/1.618 = 0.618)
O Found in nature, art, and architecture, it
also used in geometry when finding
ratios of distances in simple figures
O Things with the Golden Ratio are
visually appealing
 2/1 2
3/2 1.5
Fibonacci
5/3 1.67
Sequence and the
8/5 1.6
Gol den Ratio
Related not in numbers, 13/8 1.625
but ratios between
numbers 21/13 1.615
Whenever you divide a 34/21 1.619
number in the sequence
by the previous number,
55/34 1.618
you obtain the Golden
Ratio
As you continue, the
number gets closer to
the ratio
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

The equation most commonly
used to find the value of phi
O Basic property:
O Simplify like a
normal quadratic
function:

O Substitute into
quadratic formula:
The most common way of
depicting the Golden Ratio:

O Known as the Golden Section

O a/b = b/c = phi
Constructing a Golden Rectangle

1,1,2,3,5,8,13

Its the
Fibonacci
sequence!
Constructing a Golden Spiral
Where else does the Golden
Ratio exist?
Also applies to humans!
O Dr. Stephen Marquardt developed
the Marquardt beauty mask using
the Golden Ratio
O Can be applied to both genders and
all races
Bibliography
O http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~dlnarain/go
lden/activity8.htm
O http://www.goldennumber.net/goldsec
t.htm
O http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~demo5337
/s97b/figures.htm
O http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Golden
Ratio.html
O http://library.thinkquest.org/C005449/