An elementary treatise on conic sections

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Macmillan, 1883 - 352 páginas
 

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Página 100 - The locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords in a parabola is called a diameter.
Página 138 - A point moves so that the sum of the squares of its distances from the points (0, 0), (1, 0) is constant.
Página 31 - Show that the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distances from two h'xed straight lines is constant is a straight line.
Página 146 - Hyperbola is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point, called the focus, bears a constant ratio, which is greater than unity, to its distance from a fixed straight line, called the directrix.
Página 88 - A conic section is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point, called the focus, is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed straight line, called the directrix.
Página 29 - The lines drawn from the angles of a triangle to the middle points of the opposite sides meet in a point.
Página 112 - It may also be defined as the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed straight line.
Página 93 - To find the locus of the point of intersection of two tangents to a parabola which are at right angles to one another.
Página 262 - Prove that chords of a conic, which subtend a right angle at a fixed point 0 in the conic, pass through a fixed point on the normal at 0.
Página 15 - To find the equation of a Straight line in terms of the intercepts which it makes on the axes.

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