A Treatise on the Analytical Geometry of the Point, Line, Circle, and Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Its Most Recent Extensions, with Numerous Examples

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Hodges, Figgis, & Company Limited, 1893 - Geometry, Analytic - 564 pages
 

Contents

Base line infinite line projection of a point
43
If the general equation of the second degree represents two lines
52
Trilinear or Normal coordinates defined
61
Complete quadrilateral or quadrangle
68
Locus of centre of curvature evolute
70
Line at infinity
74
Complementary and anticomplementary points and figures
82
Comparison of point and line coordinates equation of a point
88
nsided polygon
95
4 5
97
227
99
Parabola having contact of third order
102
Equations of chords of contact of common tangents to two circles
107
Three special relations which a triangle can have with respect to
126
Frobeniuss Theorem
138
circumtriangle on any tangent
141
Reduction of general equation to parabola
143
Centre of similitude
144
perties
145
CHAPTER IV
151
Condition that four points form a harmonic system
152
Tangent to and tangential equation of general conic
155
Ratio in which join of two given points is cut by conic
162
Intersection of line and conic discussion of equation
164
Locus of centre of conic through four points
173
Joachimsthals circle for
185
Focus directrix eccentricity
200
CHAPTER V
201
Lengths of perpendiculars from foci on tangent
207
Conjugate diameters formulæ of Chasles theorem of Apollonius 209
209
Locus of pole of tangent with respect to circle whose centre is one
213
Schootens method of describing ellipse
217
Projection of concentric circles
229
Rectangle contained by segments of any chord passing through a fixed
230
orthogonally
233
Exercises on the ellipse
239
Area of equilateral hyperbola between an asymptote and two ordinates
273
CHAPTER VIII
285
THE PARABOLA
286
TWIN POINTS
292
Harmonic transformation of a triangle
298
Relation between the tripolar and normal coordinates of a point
304
232
307
All confocal conics are inscribed in the same imaginary quadri
311
Properties of homothetic and of similar conics
315
Projection of coaxal circles
352
Condition that two conics should osculate
356
Homothetic figures defined
359
Two triangles orthogonally related are orthologique
362
Locus of point whence tangents to two given conics form a harmonic
370
Maclaurins and Newtons methods of generating conics
376
Reciprocation defined
384
S kS 0 represents a curve passing through all the points of inter
386
Tangential equation of conic given a focus and circumtriangle
390
Circle of similitude
395
In ditto triangle formed by three homologous lines is in perspective
396
Modular quadrangle
398
Exercises by Neuberg
404
Conditions that two conics should be homothetic
411
Exercises
417
Barycentric coordinates of centres of perspective
423
Special cases
427
Poles with respect to triangle of reference of Neubergs hyperbolæ
431
346
434
forming a harmonic hexagon
437
If two Kieperts triangles have their parametric angles complements
447
Steiners axes are parallel to asymptotes of Kieperts hyperbola
453
Equation satisfied by the Brocard angle
459
Equation of the three linepairs
465
Anharmonic ratio of four conics of a pencil defined
474
Harmonic system of conics and their harmonic invariant
482
Fourteenpoint conic of a quadrilateral
489
14 15
495
Condition that four conics should cut a fifth orthogonally or
497
Jacobian of three conics defined
503
Equation of the cyclic points
509
Identical relations
514
Condition that three given conics should have a common point
520
17
523
A SYSTEM OF TANGENTIAL CIRCLES
538
59
549
To investigate the condition that any number of circles should have
553
All circles pass through the cyclic points
554
Intrinsic angle of point on curve
555
Envelope of a system of confocal conics
556
214 237
557
Osculating circle
560
Locus of middle points of system of parallel chords
561
Tangent to ninepoints circle at point of contact with incircle
563

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