An Elementary Course in Analytic Geometry

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American Book Company, 1898 - Geometry, Analytic - 418 pages
 

Contents

Polar coördinates 24 Notation II Elementary Applications 25 Distance between two points 26 1 Polar coördinates
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2 Cartesian coördinates axes not rectangular
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3 Rectangular coördinates 27 Slope of a line
33
The area of a triangle 1 Rectangular coördinates
34
2 Polar coördinates
36
To find the coördinates of the point which divides in a given ratio the straight line from one given point to another
37
Fundamental problems of analytic geometry
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CHAPTER III
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Equation of straight line through given point and in given
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Loci by polar coördinates
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The locus of an equation 36 Classification of loci 31 33 ཚཚ 33 34 34 36 37
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a by any trans position of the terms of the equation and B by multiply ing both members of the equation by any finite constant
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Points of intersection of two loci
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Product of two or more equations
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Locus represented by the sum of two equations
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CHAPTER IV
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Introductory
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ARTICLE
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Equation of straight line in terms of the intercepts which
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Every equation of the first degree between two variables
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Special cases of the equation of the straight line Ax+By+C0
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Line which makes a given angle with a given line
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The distance of a given point from a given line
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coördinate axes oblique
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CHAPTER VI
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The degree of an equation in Cartesian coördinates is
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Introductory
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Illustrative examples
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Construction of the ellipse
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Tangent and normal lengths subtangent and subnormal
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Page 234 - Find the locus of the center of a circle which passes through a given point and touches a given line.
Page 105 - ... by the square root of the sum of the squares of the coefficients of x...
Page 106 - Show that the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distances from two h'xed straight lines is constant is a straight line.
Page 168 - Thus a parabola is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from a fixed straight line (see fig.
Page 118 - The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and equal to half of it.
Page 177 - F') ; the diameter drawn through them is called the major axis, and the perpendicular bisector of this diameter the minor axis. It is also defined as the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point...
Page 238 - Art. 144 is sometimes given as the definition of the ellipse ; viz. the ellipse is the locus of a point the sum of whose distances from two fixed points is constant.
Page 21 - The projection of a point upon a line is the foot of the perpendicular from the point to the line.
Page 120 - The line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to half of the third side.
Page 209 - To draw that diameter of a given circle which shall pass at a given distance from a given point. 9. Find the locus of the middle points of any system of parallel chords in a circle.

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