A treatise on the analytical geometry of the point, line, circle, and conic sections

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Hodges, Figgis, 1885 - 331 páginas
 

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Página 143 - The locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords in a parabola is called a diameter.
Página 236 - We learn that the locus of a point, such that the tangent from it to a fixed circle is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed line...
Página 62 - Find the locus of a point the sum of whose distances from two given parallel lines is equal to a given length.
Página 256 - Shew that the equation of the locus of the foot of the perpendicular from the centre of an ellipse on a tangent is r2=a2cos20 + fc2sin20.
Página 239 - If two conies have each double contact with a third, their chords of contact with the third conic, and a pair of their chords of intersection with each other, will all pass through the same point, and will form an harmonic pencil.
Página 170 - Prove that the area of the parallelogram formed by the tangents at the extremities of two conjugate diameters of an ellipse is constant, and is equal to 4 ab.
Página 142 - Catalan, depends on the fact that the circle circumscribing the triangle formed by three tangents to a parabola passes through the focus.
Página 240 - If two tangents be drawn to an ellipse from any point of a confocal ellipse, the excess of the sum of these two tangents over the arc intercepted between them is constant.
Página 21 - A line which divides two sides of a triangle proportionally is parallel to the third side.
Página 100 - The angles of the triangle formed by joining the points of contact of the inscribed circle of a triangle with the sides are equal to the halves of the supplements of the corresponding angles of the original triangle. 4. If ABC, A'B'C...

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