A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most Important Modern Algebraic and Geometric Methods

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879 - 399 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 240 - Find the locus of a point, the square of whose distance from a given point is proportional to its distance from a given line.
Pàgina 241 - A conic is the locus of a point whose distance from a fixed point called the focus is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed line called a directrix.
Pàgina 179 - conic' is the locus of a point P which moves so that its distance from a fixed point S, called the 'focus,' is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed line called the 'directrix.
Pàgina 242 - If two conies have each double contact with a third, their chords of contact with that conic, and two of the lines through their common points, will meet in a point and form a harmonic pencil. Let...
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Pàgina 126 - 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...
Pàgina 97 - If through any point 0 on the circumference of a" circle any three chords be drawn, and on each as a diameter a circle be described; these three circles (which of course all pass through 0) will intersect in three other points which lie on one right Une.
Pàgina 230 - R is equal to the cube of the normal divided by the square of the semiparameter, R= _ ___ ?, since N = 2/w sec w.
Pàgina 229 - There are three points on a conic, whose osculating circles pass through a given point on the curve...
Pàgina 5 - To find the coordinates of the middle points of the sides of the triangle, the coordinates of whose vertices are (2, 3), (4, — 5), (— 3, — 6).

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