A Treatise on Plane Co-ordinate Geometry: Or, The Application of the Method of Co-ordinates to the Solution of Problems in Plane Geometry. Pt. 1, Parte 1

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Deighton's, 1844 - 180 páginas
 

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Página 22 - In this equation n is the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissae, and B is the intercept on this axis from the origin.
Página 58 - Given the base and the sum of the sides of a triangle to find the locus of the centre of the circle touching the base, and the prolongation of the other two sides.
Página 134 - QQ', RR' be two chords of a conic, and P their point of intersection, the ratio PQ . PQ' : PR . PR' is not altered by moving each chord parallel to itself, and so shifting the position of P in any manner. The reader will observe that this conclusion might have been deduced from the equations of Arts. 114, 176, 251. COR. 1. Let CV, CS be semi-diameters parallel to QQ', RR respectively ; then PQ.PQ
Página 51 - The locus of the middle points of a system of parallel chords in a parabola is called a diameter.
Página 81 - C., the axis is inclined to the plane of the base at an angle other than a right angle. A truncated C. is the lower part of a C. cut by a plane parallel...
Página 54 - Polar of any point in respect to a conic section, is the locus of the intersection of the two tangents drawn at the extremities of any chord passing through the point. It will be shown in Article 152, that this locus ia a straight line. Thus, if P be any point in a conic section, FIG. 125. MM...
Página 57 - The angle between a tangent to a circle and a chord through the point of contact is equal to the angle in the alternate segment. *The notion of a locus.
Página 155 - SOLUTIONS of the GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS proposed at St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1830 to 1846, consisting chiefly of Examples in Plane Coordinate Geometry. With an Appendix, containing several general Properties of Curves of the Second Order, and the Determination of the Magnitude and Position of the Axes of the Conic Section, represented by the General Equation of the Second Degree.
Página 95 - ... k) to the given circle. This line (or chord of contact) is known as the polar of the point...

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