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Second Morley Triangle


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The second Morley triangle is made by rotating line BC toward vertex A about vertex B by angle (B+2pi)/3. It is an equilateral triangle.

It has trilinear vertex matrix

 [1 2cos[1/3(C-2pi)] 2cos[1/3(B-2pi)]; 2cos[1/3(C-2pi)] 1 2cos[1/3(A-2pi)]; 2cos[1/3(B-2pi)] 2cos[1/3(A-2pi)] 1]
(1)

(Kimberling 1998, p. 165).

Its signed side lengths s^'=a^'=b^'=c^' are

 s^'=8Rsin[1/3(A-2pi)]sin[1/3(B-2pi)]sin[1/3(C-2pi)],
(2)

giving an area of

 A=16sqrt(2)R^2sin^2[1/3(A-2pi)]sin^2[1/3(B-2pi)]sin^2[1/3(C-2pi)].
(3)

The following table lists perspectors of the second Morley triangles with other named triangles that are Kimberling centers.

triangleKimberlingperspector
first Morley triangleX_(358)second Morley-Taylor-Marr center
reference triangleX_(1136)5th Morley-Taylor-Marr center
third Morley triangleX_(1137)6th Morley-Taylor-Marr center

See also

First Morley Triangle, Second Morley Adjunct Triangle, Third Morley Triangle

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References

Kimberling, C. "Triangle Centers and Central Triangles." Congr. Numer. 129, 1-295, 1998.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Second Morley Triangle." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SecondMorleyTriangle.html

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