New Analytic Geometry

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Lengths
13
Inclination and slope
16
Point of division
19
Areas
24
CHAPTER III
30
First fundamental problem
32
Locus of an equation
36
Second fundamental problem
37
Third fundamental problem Discussion of an equation
42
SECTION PAGE 21 Directions for discussing an equation
47
Sign of a quadratic
49
Asymptotes
51
Points of intersection
55
CHAPTER IV
58
Locus of any equation of the first degree
59
Plotting straight lines
60
Pointslope form
62
Twopoint form
63
Intercept form
67
Theorems on projection
68
The normal equation of the straight line
70
Reduction to the normal form
71
The perpendicular distance from a line to a point
74
The angle which a line makes with a second line
80
Systems of straight lines
84
System of lines passing through the intersection of two given lines
87
CHAPTER V
92
Circles determined by three conditions
94
CHAPTER VI
101
Table of values of the exponential function
104
Sine curves
105
Addition of ordinates
111
Boundary curves
114
Transcendental equations Graphical solution
116
CHAPTER VII
119
Locus of an equation
120
Rapid plotting of polar equations
125
Points of intersection
127
Transformation from rectangular to polar coördinates
128
Applications Straight line and circle
130
CHAPTER VIII
134
Notation of functions
143
CHAPTER IX
144
Rotation of the axes
146
General transformation of coördinates
148
Simplification of equations by transformation of coördinates
149
CHAPTER X
153
Construction of the parabola
157
Theorem
159
Construction of the ellipse
163
Theorem
165
Conjugate hyperbolas and asymptotes
170
Equilateral or rectangular hyperbola
173
Theorem
175
Tangent whose slope is given
198
Formulas for tangents when the slope is given
200
Properties of tangents and normals to conics
201
CHAPTER XII
205
Various parametric equations for the same curve
208
Locus problems solved by parametric equations
211
Loci derived by a construction from a given curve
218
Loci using polar coördinates
220
Loci defined by the points of intersection of systems of lines
223
Diameters of conics
226
CHAPTER XIII
230
Orthogonal projections
233
Direction cosines of a line
236
Lengths
238
Angle between two directed lines
240
Point of division
242
CHAPTER XIV
245
Planes parallel to the coördinate planes
249
Locus of one equation Second fundamental problem
253
Discussion of the equation of a surface Third fundamental problem
256
CHAPTER XV
260
The general equation of the first degree
261
Planes determined by three conditions
266
The equation of a plane in terms of its intercepts
269
The angle between two planes
271
Systems of planes
273
CHAPTER XVI
277
The projecting planes of a line
280
Various forms of the equations of a line
282
Relative positions of a line and plane
287
CHAPTER XVII
291
Cylinders
295
The projecting cylinders of a curve
297
SECTION PAGE 115 Parametric equations of curves in space
300
Cones
302
Surfaces of revolution
304
Ruled surfaces
307
CHAPTER XVIII
310
Polar coördinates
313
Cylindrical coördinates
314
CHAPTER XIX
316
Simplification of the general equation of the second degree in three variables
317
The ellipsoid
319
The hyperboloid of one sheet
320
The hyperboloid of two sheets
321
The elliptic paraboloid
324
The hyperbolic paraboloid
325
Rectilinear generators
327
CHAPTER XX
330
Laws reduced to straightline laws
333
Miscellaneous laws
338
Conclusion
340
INDEX
341
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