Calculations at an acute, concave quadrilateral or quadrangle, a quadrilateral with a reflex angle (above 180°). The calculation is done by fragmenting the concave quadrilateral into triangles, which can be calculated with the according formulas.
Enter the first three lengths a, b and c and the two angles between them, β and γ. γ must be acute (below 90°), to make the calculation correct. The inner side c must be shorter than each of the outer sides a and b. Please enter angles in degrees, here you can convert angle units.
Acute, concave quadrilateral shape (a at the bottom). The orientation is different from that in the upper example. If this quadrilateral is drawn crossed, the upper calculation is not valid:
α = arccos( (a² + d² - f²) / 2ad )
δ = 360° - α - β - γ
p = a + b + c + d
A = √(a+f+d)/2 * ((a+f+d)/2-a) * ((a+f+d)/2-f) * ((a+f+d)/2-d) + √(b+c+f)/2 * ((b+c+f)/2-b) * ((b+c+f)/2-c) * ((b+c+f)/2-f)
Side length, diagonals and perimeter have the same unit (e.g. meter), the area has this unit squared (e.g. square meter), the angles are in degrees.
Concave means curved inwards, as opposed to convex, which means curved outwards. A body or shape is concave if there are one or more curves inwards, but concave shapes always have curves outwards as well. In the case of concave polygons, the curves are not round, as the name suggests, but are in the form of corners pointing inwards. The concave quadrilateral has such a corner pointing inwards, whose interior angle, δ in the drawing above, is between 180 and 360 degrees. The other three angles are convex. The two adjacent convex angles, α and γ, are acute angles. β can be an acute or an obtuse angle. A symmetrical special case of the concave quadrilateral is the arrowhead quadrilateral. If it is not a sagittal quadrilateral, then the concave quadrilateral has no symmetries.
The formula for the area, which at first glance seems very complicated, results from the areas of the two triangles, where (a+f+d) is the perimeter of one triangle and (b+c+f) is the perimeter of the other triangle.