The GRE Quantitative Reasoning Test: Geometry, List 2

The heat island effect is a phenomenon in which urban areas experience higher temperatures than the areas adjacent to them. Salon (Jul 31, 2022)

This led him to discover that the pendulum always took the same time to complete one swing, whether it was swinging over a short arc or a long arc. The Scientists

Along those lines, if you bisect a person’s photograph and view each half independently, people usually think he “looks like” the left half more than the right half. Scientific American (May 16, 2014)

Observers at different latitudes see the star pass behind a different chord through the asteroid, so the observations can be combined to measure the latter’s size and shape. Scientific American (Nov 30, 2022)

To evenly heat the dough within, the oven is shaped like a cylinder with heaters lining every side; that way, the cookie is heated evenly all over. The Verge (Dec 26, 2019)

Instead of its predicted path being a closed ellipse, its orbit was open, indicating that it would never return. Scientific American (Sep 30, 2020)

It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides. The Invention of Science

Water molecules have a particular bent shape that causes them to stack into clusters shaped like hexagons as they freeze. Salon (Sep 23, 2022)

The Lute of Pythagoras is based on the “golden” isosceles triangle, a triangle with two equal sides and an apex angle of 36 degrees. Scientific American (May 29, 2013)

It is also possible to pave the plane with infinite straight lines: just place them all side by side and parallel. Scientific American (Apr 28, 2021)

Think about it: a square or rectangle can easily be pressured into a parallelogram without changing the length of its sides. The Verge (Jun 4, 2016)

Given that a smiley-face is 2D, presumably if it exploded such that its plane were perpendicular to the viewer, it would appear to look like a straight line. Salon (Jul 2, 2022)

The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon. Cosmos

Geometric columns are seen in a variety of volcanic rocks across the Earth and are known to form as the rock cools and contracts, resulting in a regular array of polygonal prisms or columns. The Guardian (Apr 12, 2018)

The lack of interest was driven in part because John von Neumann, a highly regarded scientist, had in 1932 published a mathematical proof ruling out hidden-variable theories. Scientific American (Oct 6, 2022)

For 4,500 years, the pyramids of Giza have loomed over the western bank of the Nile River as a geometric mountain chain. New York Times (Aug 30, 2022)

Often there will already be a cabinet offered as standard to fit into that uneven corner run, rhombus of a nook or sliver next to your stove. Washington Post (May 15, 2018)

Wherever that interior mesh mistakenly crosses over itself, the algorithm modifies that part of the contour, such as by untwisting it or adding finer line segments. Scientific American (Dec 1, 2022)

So a circle gets squashed into an ellipse, a rectangle turns into a trapezoid. Scientific American (Jun 5, 2012)

And the next thing I knew I was in a trigonometry class and they’re talking about sines and cosines without any mention that it had something to do with triangles. Scientific American (Dec 1, 2011)