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, 1904 - 399 sidor
 

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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 230 - The radius of curvature at any point of a conic section, is equal to the cube of the normal divided by the square of half the parameter.
Sida 242 - If two conies have each double contact with a third conic, prove that their chords of contact with the third conic, and a pair of their chords of intersection with each other, will all meet in a point and form a harmonic pencil.
Sida 229 - There are three points on a conic, whose osculating circles pass through a given point on the curve...
Sida 377 - If two tangents be drawn to an ellipse from any point of a confocal ellipse...
Sida 213 - Find the locus of the. foot of the perpendicular from the focus on the tangent.

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