A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions, Volume 1

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Hodges, Figgis, & Company, 1882 - Geometry, Analytic - 612 pages
 

Contents

Cylinder the limiting case of a cone
48
Its order
63
Sum of squares of three conjugate diameters is constant
78
CIRCULAR SECTIONS
82
Ditto when lines are given by their six coordinates
92
Tangent planes through any line to the two confocals which it touches
100
Reciprocal cones
101
TANGENTIAL EQUATIONS
109
Four cones pass through the intersection of two quadrics
115
CHAPTER VIII
126
Focal lines of a cone
133
Three confocals through a point all real and of different species
141
coordinates
148
Normals to tangent planes through a given line generate a hyperbolic paraboloid
153
The focal lines of these cones are the generators of the hyperboloid through
154
Locus of points of contact of parallel planes touching a series of confocals
166
Equation of its reciprocal
172
Point of contact of two surfaces a double point on their curve of intersection
178
Tangential equation of imaginary circle at infinity
184
Coordinates of a tangent to the common curve expressed by a parameter
192
Tangential equation of a quadric
196
Method of finding equations of focal conics of quadric given by general equation
198
Jacobian of a system of four quadrics
205
Sum of focal distances constant
211
Cyclic arcs of spheroconics analogous to asymptotes
220
PROPERTIES OF QUADRICS IN GENERAL
223
Equation in spherical coordinates of imaginary circle at infinity
227
Number of conditions necessary to determine a quadric
233
Section of surface by tangent plane has point of contact for a double point
234
Result of transformation to parallel axes
240
Number of double tangents through any point
246
CURVATURE OF SURFACES
252
Values of principal radii at any point
258
Stationary contact implies contact at two points
264
If two surfaces cut at right angles their intersection if a line of curvature
270
Its osculating plane normal to the surface
273
Equation of a right cone
274
CHAPTER XII
279
Envelope of a plane whose equation contains one parameter
286
Developable generated by tangents is of same degree as reciprocal developable
294
Equation of system of quadrics having common curve
297
It varies inversely as product of two principal radii
349
Measure of curvature unaltered by deformation
355
PD constant for a geodesic on a quadric
361
Locus of centres of quadrics touching eight planes
367
382 Ex 2 the expression
382
CHAPTER XIII
383
Conoidal surfaces
389
Surfaces of revolution
390
99
391
Surfaces generated by lines parallel to a fixed plane
396
Determination of arbitrary functions
403
Tubular surfaces
409
COMPLexes Congruencies RULED SURFACES
416
Tangent plane at any point on a ruled surface how constructed
422
Double curves generally exist on ruled surfaces
428
Relation between class and order of a congruency and of its focal surface
433
ORTHOGONAL SURFACES
436
Bouquets special case of the differential equation
449
Apsidal surfaces
455
Expression for angle between tangent plane and radius vector
463
Add at end of Chapter IX
466
Its cuspidal curves
470
Problem of finding negative pedals identical with that of finding parallel surfaces
483
Torsal and oscular lines
489
Quartics with nodal conic
493
Right lines on cubics
496
Section by tangent plane how met by polar plane with regard to Hessian
503
Equation of surface which determines twentyseven right lines
510
Investigation of Harts extension of Feuerbachs theorem
511
Quartics with triple lines
519
Sixteen lines on the surface
523
Their focal curves
529
Spheroquartics
535
The 16nodal quartic
541
Degree of condition that two surfaces may touch
547
Clebschs calculation of surface
560
Number of points at which two tangents are biflecnodal
572
Locus of points of contact of double tangent planes
579
Effect of multiple lines on degree of reciprocal
587
Its class 472
592

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