 | Henry Parr Hamilton - 1834 - 240 páginas
...intersection is the directrix. ON THE ELLIPSE. CHAPTER I. ON THE ELLIPSE REFERRED TO ITS AXES. 92. To find the equation to the ellipse. The ellipse is the locus of a point whose distance from the focus is always less, in a given ratio, than its distance from the directrix.... | |
 | Henry Parr Hamilton - 1834 - 272 páginas
...intersection is the directrix. ON THE ELLIPSE. CHAPTER I. ON THE ELLIPSE REFERRED TO ITS AXES. 92. Tofind the equation to the ellipse. The ellipse is the locus of a point whose distance from the focus is always less, in a given ratio, than its distance from the directrix.... | |
 | John Hymers - 1837 - 486 páginas
...contained by AN, NP. SECTION VII. ON THE ELLIPSE. Various forms of the equation to the Ellipse. 4 104. To find the equation to the Ellipse. The ellipse is the locus of a point, whose distance from a given point is always less than its distance from a given fixed line, in a constant... | |
 | Michel Chasles - 1837 - 564 páginas
...contained by AN, NP. SECTION VII. ON THE ELLIPSE. Various forms of the equation to the Ellipse. 104. To find the equation to the Ellipse. The ellipse is the locus of a point, whose distance from a given point is always less than its distance from a given fixed line, in a constant... | |
 | 1949 - 832 páginas
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 | Isaac Todhunter - 1855 - 332 páginas
...consequences of the definitions in Art. 123. 125. To find the equation to the Parabola. A parabola is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from a fixed straight line. Let S be the fixed point, YY' the fixed straight... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1862 - 376 páginas
...of contact of the tangents from (h, A) are represents ty the equation CHAPTEE IX. THE ELLIPSE. 158. To find the equation to the ellipse^ The ellipse is the locus of a point which moves so that its .istance from a fixed point bears a constant ratio to its disance from a fixed straight line, the ratio... | |
 | Thomas Kimber - 1865 - 302 páginas
...normals at the ends of the latera recta. 16. Find the equation to the hyperbola, considering it as the locus of a point which moves, so that its distance from one fixed point differs by a constant quantity from its distance from another fixed point. Show that... | |
 | James White - 1878 - 160 páginas
...both in simplicity and in the importance of its applications, is the parabola. It may be defined as The locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is equal tu its distance from a fixed straight line. The fixed point (F in figure) is called the focus... | |
 | R. M. Milburn - 1880 - 116 páginas
...double ordinate through the focus of a conic section is called the latus rectum. 40. Def. A parabola is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from a fixed straight line. A the vertex ; S the focus ; AS=a,- AM=x; MF^y.... | |
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Thus a parabola is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from a fixed straight line (see fig. 
