An Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry: With Numerous Examples

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Clarendon Press, 1893 - Geometry, Analytic - 425 pages

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Page 128 - Find the locus of a point, the distances of which from two given straight lines have a fixed ratio. 143. Find the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distances from two vertices of an equilateral triangle shall equal its distance from the third.
Page 81 - A conic section is the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed point, called the focus, is in a constant ratio to its distance from a fixed straight line, called the directrix.
Page 208 - PF'/PH' = e, by definition of the curve. Furthermore :f (6) PF + PF' = 2a. In fact, the ellipse is often defined as the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distances from two fixed points is constant.
Page 405 - The diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle intersect at right angles...
Page 1 - THE Rectangle under the Sum and Difference of two Lines, is equal to the Difference of the Squares, of those Lines.
Page 352 - Two circles have double internal contact with an cllipse,t and a third circle passes through the four points of contact. If t, t', T be the tangents' from any point on the ellipse to these three circles, prove that T* = «'. 579.
Page 158 - What is the locus of a point which moves so that the square of its distance from a fixed point is proportional to its distance from a fixed line?
Page 105 - A straight line moves so that the sum of the reciprocals of its intercepts on two fixed intersecting lines is constant; shew that it passes through a fixed point. 2. Prove that bx" — 2/ixy + ay* = 0 represents two straight lines at right angles respectively to the straight lines ax1 + 2hxy + by*=Q.
Page 425 - Edition. 8vo, 1 2*. 6d. Graphical Statics. Two Treatises on the Graphical Calculus and Reciprocal Figures in Graphical Statics. By the same Author. Translated by T. HUDSON BEARS.

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