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How to bisect an angle of 63 degree with compass?

Bisection of an angle

Bisection of an angle is a very basic and important thing in engineering drawing and math. There are so many ways to bisect an angle, but in this post we will discuss about the method for bisecting an angle with help of a compass.
Question: Bisect an angle of 63 degree.
Solution:
Procedure:
  1. Draw an angle of 63 degree with the help of a protractor. Name the angle as QOP.
  2. Take a compass with any random radius (Make sure that the radius must be less than the length of the lines OQ and OP.) and draw two arcs from the point O on the lines OQ and OP as shown in the figure.
  3. From those two arcs with the same radius, draw two arcs somewhere in the middle of the angle.
  4. On which point those two arcs intersects, draw a line OR as shown in the image.
  5. This OR line will be the bisecting line of the angle of 63 degree and the angle ROP will be of 31.5 degree.

Practice questions on angle bisection:

  1. Bisect angle of 50 degree.
  2. Bisect angle of 90 degree in 4 parts.
  3. Bisect angle of 120 degree and divide that line in 4 equal parts.

In closing...

And is how we can bisect an angle with the help of compass. I hope you understood the concept of bisecting of an angle. By using the similar method you can bisect any angle. If you have some doubts, let me know in the gmail!