- Inicio
- Areas of plane figures
- The lune
The lune
- Construction of the lune:
- We draw an isosceles rectangular triangle
- The arc of circumference $AB$ is created by the circle centred in $O$
- We draw another arc that passes through $AB$, this time with the center in the middle point of the hypotenuse $AB$:
The blue section is the lune.
- Area of the lune:
Area of the lune = Area of the semicircle - Area of the circular segment
Area of the lune = Area of the semicircle - Area of the sector + Area of the triangle
$$A_{lune}=\frac{\pi \cdot r^2}{2}- \frac{\pi \cdot r'^2 \cdot 90^\circ}{360^\circ}+A_{triangle}$$
where the first $r$ is half of the hypotenuse of the triangle, and the second $r$ is the measure $OA=OB$.