137. Stewart's relation.

by Virgil Nicula, Oct 3, 2010, 3:15 PM

Consider a line $d$ and $\{A,B,C\}\subset d$ and a point $P$ . Then exists the Steiner's relation

$\boxed{PA^2\cdot\overline{BC}+PB^2\cdot\overline{CA}+PC^2\cdot\overline{AB}+\overline {BC}\cdot\overline{CA}\cdot\overline{AB}=0}$ .


Proof. Denote $T\in d$ , $PT\perp d$ and $PA=x$ , $PB=y$ , $PC=z$ . Using the generalized Pytagoras' relation obtain :

$\left\|\begin{array}{cc}
x^2=z^2+AC^2-2\cdot \overline{AC}\cdot\overline{TC}=0\\\\
y^2=z^2+BC^2-2\cdot\overline{BC}\cdot\overline{TC}=0\end{array}\right|\left|\begin{array}{c}
\odot\ \overline {BC}\\\\
\odot\ \overline{CA}\end{array}\right\|\ \bigoplus\implies$

$x^2\cdot\overline{BC}+y^2\cdot\overline{CA}=$ $z^2\cdot\left(\overline{BC}+\overline{CA}\right)+AC^2\cdot \overline{BC}+BC^2\cdot\overline{CA}-2\cdot\overline{AC}\cdot\overline{TC}\cdot\overline{BC}-2\cdot\overline{BC}\cdot\overline{TC}\cdot\overline{CA}$ $\iff$

$x^2\cdot\overline{BC}+y^2\cdot\overline{CA}=z^2\cdot \overline{BA}+\overline{CA}\cdot\overline{BC}\cdot\left(\overline{CA}+\overline{BC}\right)$ $\iff$ $x^2\cdot\overline{BC}+y^2\cdot\overline{CA}=z^2\cdot\overline{BA}+\overline{BC}\cdot\overline{CA}\cdot\overline{BA}$ $\iff$

$x^2\cdot\overline{BC}+y^2\cdot\overline{CA}+z^2\cdot\overline{AB}+\overline {BC}\cdot\overline{CA}\cdot\overline{AB}=0$ .
This post has been edited 16 times. Last edited by Virgil Nicula, Dec 1, 2015, 11:11 AM

Comment

0 Comments

Own problems or extensions/generalizations of some problems which was posted here.

avatar

Virgil Nicula
Archives
+ October 2017
+ September 2017
+ December 2016
+ October 2016
+ February 2016
+ September 2013
+ October 2010
+ September 2010
Shouts
Submit
  • orzzzzzzzzz

    by mathMagicOPS, Jan 9, 2025, 3:40 AM

  • this css is sus

    by ihatemath123, Aug 14, 2024, 1:53 AM

  • 391345 views moment

    by ryanbear, May 9, 2023, 6:10 AM

  • We need virgil nicula to return to aops, this blog is top 10 all time.

    by OlympusHero, Sep 14, 2022, 4:44 AM

  • :omighty: blog

    by tigerzhang, Aug 1, 2021, 12:02 AM

  • Amazing blog.

    by OlympusHero, May 13, 2021, 10:23 PM

  • the visits tho

    by GoogleNebula, Apr 14, 2021, 5:25 AM

  • Bro this blog is ripped

    by samrocksnature, Apr 14, 2021, 5:16 AM

  • Holy- Darn this is good. shame it's inactive now

    by the_mathmagician, Jan 17, 2021, 7:43 PM

  • godly blog. opopop

    by OlympusHero, Dec 30, 2020, 6:08 PM

  • long blog

    by MrMustache, Nov 11, 2020, 4:52 PM

  • 372554 views!

    by mrmath0720, Sep 28, 2020, 1:11 AM

  • wow... i am lost.

    369302 views!

    -piphi

    by piphi, Jun 10, 2020, 11:44 PM

  • That was a lot! But, really good solutions and format! Nice blog!!!! :)

    by CSPAL, May 27, 2020, 4:17 PM

  • impressive :D
    awesome. 358,000 visits?????

    by OlympusHero, May 14, 2020, 8:43 PM

72 shouts
Tags
About Owner
  • Posts: 7054
  • Joined: Jun 22, 2005
Blog Stats
  • Blog created: Apr 20, 2010
  • Total entries: 456
  • Total visits: 404395
  • Total comments: 37
Search Blog
a