Stewart's Theorem
Description
Stewart’s theorem yields a relation between the length of the sides of the triangle and the length of a cevian of the triangle. A cevian is any line segment in a triangle with one endpoint on a vertex of the triangle and the other endpoint on the opposite side.
Related formulasVariables
| b | Length of one of the sides of the triangle (m) |
| m | Lenth of one of the segments that cevian divides the side a (adjacent to c) (m) |
| c | Length of another side of the triangle ( adjacent to b) (m) |
| n | Lenth of one of the segments that cevian divides the side a ( adjacent to b) (m) |
| a | Length of the third side of the triangle ( the base of the triangle) (m) |
| d | Length of the cevian to the side of length a (m) |