Area of a circle's perpendicular components

Zula110100100

I asked a similar question about gravity, but I would just like to check the math of this first.



In the first picture I have a circle of radius r, There is a point p on the circle, and I am first trying to show that the equation below gives the area of the circle:

[itex]2\int^{90}_{0} \frac{\pi r^2cos^2\theta}{90}d\theta[/itex]

I got this from the area of a sector of a circle, but rather than from the center, go with the sector of a circle whose radius is a chord. It cuts some off, but as d[itex]\theta[/itex]→0 so does the error.

If you take out the constants and solve, you have:

[itex]\frac{\pi r^2}{45}\int^{90}_{0}\cos^2\theta d\theta = \frac{\pi r^2}{45} |^{90}_{0}\frac{sin(2\theta) + 2\theta}{4} = \frac{\pi r^2}{45}(\frac{180}{4}) = \pi r^2[/itex]

So that gives you the area of a circle figured up by little slices, the angle of each we know, it is [itex]\theta[/itex], or to be more correct, in each sector there is an angle [itex]\theta^{\ast}_{\imath}[/itex] that points to the center of the area, and as [itex]d\theta[/itex] approaches 0, [itex]\theta^{\ast}_\imath[/itex] approaches [itex]\theta[/itex]

Alright, so if that is all good, then I introduced a vector, whose magnitude was the area of the sector defined above, and whose direction is [itex]\theta[/itex], relative to a line going through the point and the center, for each slice. I could figure out how much of the area is parallel to a line going from the point P to the center of the circle with:



[itex]2A\cos \theta[/itex]

Substituting in for A we get:
[itex]\int^{90}_{0}\frac{\pi r^2\cos^3\theta}{45}d\theta[/itex]

As before pull out the constants and evaluate:

[itex]\frac{\pi r^2}{45}\int^{90}_{0}cos^3\theta d\theta = \frac{\pi r^2}{45}|^{90}_{0}-\frac{\sin^3\theta -3\sin\theta}{3} = \frac{\pi r^2}{45}(\frac{2}{3}) = .0\overline{148}\pi r^2[/itex]

This this math correct? Is there only [itex]1.\overline{481}\%[/itex] of the circle "parallel to" a line going from the center to a point on the circumference?

Zula110100100

*bump* Ah, I already feel this going unanswered...if someone could please check my math I would greatly appreciate it. And correction on the title, parallel is what I meant. Also, I dropped the [itex]d\theta[/itex] from the A= equation on the second page, but it should be there.