Analytic Geometry

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Macmillan, 1923 - Geometry, Analytic - 306 pages
 

Contents

Parallel and perpendicular lines
10
Area of a triangle 12 Application of analysis to elementary geometry
12
Constants variables
13
CHAPTER II
14
Scope of the term curve
15
Symmetry
16
Tests for symmetry
17
Intercepts on the axes
18
Curve tracing 4
19
+5 8 9
21
20
25
Consequences of the definition of locus
26
Factorable equations
27
Algebraic transformation of equations
28
Points of intersection of two curves
29
Importance of checks
30
Nonintersecting curves 26 Number of points of intersection
31
The general equation of the first degree
34
The normal form
56
Polar coördinates
62
Angle between two lines
63
CHAPTER VII
68
General equation
69
Quadratic equations
75
Tangents having a given slope
81
THE CONIC SECTIONS
87
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98
Definitions
105
Other standard forms
111
General equation
117
Equilateral or rectangular hyperbola
123
ᎪᎡᎢ PAGE 82 Introduction
125
Rotation of axes
126
THE GENERAL EQUATION OF THE SECOND DEGREE 85 Introduction
129
Removal of the product term
130
Test for the species of a conic
132
The rectangular hyperbola with asymptotes parallel to the coördinate axes
133
Curve tracing by composition of ordinates
134
Limiting forms
138
The pair of straight lines
139
Conic through five points
142
Parabola through four points
144
CHAPTER VIII
146
Similar and equal geometric figures
148
Geometric problems involving the parabola
149
Tangent at a given point
154
Normal subtangent subnormal
156
Tangents having a given slope tangents drawn from an external point
159
Number of tangents through a given point
160
Two geometric properties
161
Chord of contact
163
Loci by elimination of parameters
164
Diameter of a conic
167
Geometric properties involving diameters
169
CHAPTER IX
173
A new definition of the ellipse
175
A new definition of the hyperbola
177
Tangent at a given point of contact
179
A property of the tangent to a central conic
180
Tangents having a given slope
181
Another property involving tangents
184
Asymptotes
200
Single equation representing the pair of asymptotes
201
A general method for determination of asymptotes
204
Equilateral hyperbola referred to its asymptotes
206
SOLID ANALYTIC GEOMETRY CHAPTER X
208
Figures
209
Distance between two points
210
Direction angles direction cosines
213
Direction cosines proportional to three numbers
214
Radius vector of a point
215
Projections
218
Perpendicular lines
219
Cylindrical coördinates
221
CHAPTER XI
222
Determination of points on a surface intercepts on the axes
223
The locus of two simultaneous equations
225
Determination of points on a curve piercing points
226
Intersection of three surfaces of a curve and a surface
227
The surface as locus of a moving point
228
CHAPTER XII
230
General form reduction to normal form
231
Perpendicular line and plane
232
Parallel planes
234
Distance between parallel planes between a point and a plane
235
Plane through a given point
236
Angle between two planes
238
Planes perpendicular to a coördinate plane
239
Intercept form
240
Intersection of three planes
241
CHAPTER XIII
242
Projecting planes
243
Symmetric form
245
Determination of direction cosines reduction to the sym metric form
246
second method
247
Parallel intersecting and skew lines
248
Perpendicular line and plane
250
Angle between a line and a plane
251
CHAPTER XIV
255
Sketching by parallel plane sections
256
Generation of a surface by a moving curve
258
The sphere
263
Quadric surfaces
265
The ellipsoid
266
The hyperboloid of one sheet
268
The hyperboloid of two sheets
270
The elliptic paraboloid
274
Ruled surfaces
277
The hyperboloid of one sheet as a ruled surface
278
The hyperbolic paraboloid as a ruled surface
279
Cylinders
282
cylinders perpendicular to a coördinate plane
283
Quadric cylinders
284
Cones
287
The general equation of the second degree
291
CHAPTER XV
294
Plane sections of a quadric surface
298
Plane sections of a quadric cylinder
299
The conic sections
300
INDEX
303
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