...Rules for finding the logarithms of numbers. (5G). QUESTION VI. By . Def. A diameter of a curve is the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords. Find the equations of the diameters of the curves represented by the general equation of the second...

...and consequently HP=2a + r, we have . 2а + r The Hyperbola referred to its Conjugate Diameters. 187- To find the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords. Let the chords be parallel to a line CW through the center (fig. 57), whose equation is y — mx ;...

...cos - . sin ~~£ 2 2 2 ' c A — BC , o + 4 and sin T..COS.•• = sm — . sm — — ' 9 31 22 8. Find the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords of the curve whose equation is aa* + hxy + cy* + dx + ey +/= 0. Heuce show that the curve has generally...

...2 ' Sln T~ ' . c AB C . a+b and sin - . cos — — — = sin — . sin -•;;--• m im £i £i 8. Find the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords of the curve whose equation is ax* + bxy + cy* + dx -f ey +f = 0. Hence shew that the curve has generally...

...draw tangents to the latter. Find the locus of the intersections of the latter pairs of tangents. 15. Find the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords drawn between an hyperbola and the conjugate hyperbola. 16. If a pair of conjugate diameters of an...

...proposed equation must be capable of being resolved into two rational factors of the first degree. 136. The locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords of any proposed surface is called its diametral surface. This surface will have several sheets, if each of...

...intelligible to the great bulk of students; and that mode of investigation which is made to depend on the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords is more unexceptionable, as jhe peculiar difficulties of the doctrine of limits are therein almost...

...becomes x -- y =, 0. (3) If от < l, x -- у + oo = О, and there is then no rectilinear asymptote. 13. To find the locus of the middle points of a system of chords parallel to la + mß + my = 0 in the conic ф (aßy) =A<xt + Bß*+Of+ ZÄ'ßy 4 ЪВ'ау +...

...tangent lines parallel to a is = 0. XXVII. To study the nature of the surface more closely, let us find the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords. Let them be parallel to a, then, if ts be the vector of the middle point of one of them, ts + xa. and...

...from another property of surfaces of the second degree. I shall in the first place demonstrate that the locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords is a plane. Let us take (28) to be the equation to the surface ; and let the equations to one of a...