Heptagon's fine, but!

Geometry Level 5

There's a regular heptagon A B C D E F G ABCDEFG in the Cartesian plane with center of it's circumcircle at point J ( 8 , 8 ) J(8,8) .

Every side of the heptagon is of length 4 sin π 7 4 \sin \frac{\pi}{7} .

Point H H has coordinate ( 16 , 12 ) (16,12) .

Find H A 2 + H B 2 + H C 2 + H D 2 + H E 2 + H F 2 + H G 2 HA^2+HB^2+HC^2+HD^2+HE^2+HF^2+HG^2 .

Details and assumptions :

  • A regular heptagon has 7 vertices and all sides are of equal length.

  • The angle π 7 \frac{\pi}{7} is in radians.


The answer is 588.

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2 solutions

Aditya Raut
Apr 13, 2015

Well, though looks geometry, this is Moment of inertia! Attach unit masses at all the 7 vertices.

We know that moment of inertia I \textbf{I} of a system of mass m \textbf{m} , having moment of inertia I c o m I_{com} about center of mass, about a point at distance l l from center of mass is given by I =I c o m + m l 2 \text{I =I}_{com}+ ml^2


From the given side length, we conclude that circumradius, i.e. JA is 2 2 units, moment of inertia of each vertex being 1 × 2 2 = 4 1\times 2^2 =4 .

I c m = 7 × 4 = 28 I_{cm} = 7\times 4 = 28 .

The center of mass will be J J by simple observation, so l = J H l = JH

J H = ( 16 8 ) 2 + ( 12 8 ) 2 . . . Distance formula = 80 JH = \sqrt{(16-8)^2+(12-8)^2} ...\quad\quad \text{Distance formula}\\ \quad = \sqrt{80}

I c o m = 28 , m = 7 , l = 80 I_{com}=28 , m= 7 , l= \sqrt{80}

Hence, I H = 28 + 7 × 80 = 588 I_H = 28+7\times 80= \boxed{588} .

Thanks for this cool approach , did u learn this technique before , or this is original ..? @Aditya Raut

Karan Shekhawat - 6 years, 2 months ago

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Not original, I learnt that in physics, not too different in geometry though... Noticed that a problem of this type can be made, so posted one ;)

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 2 months ago

Did it the same way. This can easily be done by vectors too. :)

Aalap Shah - 6 years, 2 months ago

Lol now I feel stupid for complex bashing with roots of unity

Kaiwen Li - 4 years, 5 months ago
Aalap Shah
Apr 15, 2015

I will use a vector approach here. First of all, it is clear that the radius of the circumcircle of the heptagon is 2 units. This is because the length of side of a regular n-gon is: s = 2 r sin π n s=2r\sin { \frac { \pi }{ n } } Which can be proved by simple trigonometry. So, for the given case: 4 sin π 7 = 2 r sin π 7 4\sin { \frac { \pi }{ 7 } } =2r\sin { \frac { \pi }{ 7 } } r = 2 \therefore r=2 Now, consider: H A 2 = H A 2 = ( H J + J A ) . ( H J + J A ) = H J 2 + 2 H J . J A + J A 2 { HA }^{ 2 }={ |\vec { HA } | }^{ 2 }=(\overrightarrow { HJ } +\overrightarrow { JA } ).(\overrightarrow { HJ } +\overrightarrow { JA } )={ HJ }^{ 2 }+2\overrightarrow { HJ } .\overrightarrow { JA } +{ JA }^{ 2 } Let d be the distance between H and J : H A 2 = d 2 + 2 H J . J A + r 2 \therefore { HA }^{ 2 }={ d }^{ 2 }+2\overrightarrow { HJ } .\overrightarrow { JA } +{ r }^{ 2 } Thus, we can rewrite the original expression as follows: 7 ( d 2 + r 2 ) + 2 H J . ( J A + J B + J C + J D + J E + J F + J G ) 7({ d }^{ 2 }+{ r }^{ 2 })+2\overrightarrow { HJ } .(\overrightarrow { JA } +\overrightarrow { JB } +\overrightarrow { JC } +\overrightarrow { JD } +\overrightarrow { JE } +\overrightarrow { JF } +\overrightarrow { JG } ) = 7 ( d 2 + r 2 ) + 2 H J . ( 0 ) =7({ d }^{ 2 }+{ r }^{ 2 })+2\overrightarrow { HJ } .(\overrightarrow { 0 } ) Which can be explained easily by symmetry. Thus, the required answer is: = 7 ( d 2 + r 2 ) = 7 ( 80 + 4 ) = 588 =7({ d }^{ 2 }+{ r }^{ 2 })=7(80+4)=\boxed{588}

Note: This technique is essentially the same as the moment of inertia approach . This basically works as a proof for the parallel axis theorem, where J is the centre of mass of the system.

Thanks for the nice simple approach.

Niranjan Khanderia - 6 years, 2 months ago

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