 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...  Analytic Geometry - Page 115by Lewis Parker Siceloff, George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - 1922 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
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...parallels meet at E ; prove that a parallel to BC through E, meeting AB, CD, is bisected at E. Ex. 47. Find the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of its distances from two intersecting straight lines is constant. Ex. 48. ABCD is any parallelogram. From A a straight line... | |
 | Actuarial Society of America - Insurance - 1923 - 580 pages
...vertical angle of a triangle divides the base into segments proportional to the sides. (6) Show that the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of its distances from two fixed points is constant is a circle. 10. (a) Find the sum of the squares of the first n natural... | |
 | Aeronautics, Military - 1898 - 606 pages
...point m. In this case it will be the first object of A to intercept B on the course to Bizerta. Now the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of its distances from two fixed points, a and b, is constant, will be a circle, having its centre on the line ab produced.... | |
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...of a trapezium is double the other ; show that the diagonals trisect one another. t Ex. 1386. Find the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of its distances from two intersecting straight lines is constant. • Ex. 1386. Show how to draw through a given point within... | |
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...(straight) lines through the common centre. The radical axis is missing. Theorem 4 is still true. THEOREM 6. The locus of a point which moves, so that the ratio of its powers for two given circles is constant, is a coaxal circle. Given. Two circles S^, ^2, with centres... | |
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...lines through the common centre. The radical axis is missing. Theorem 4 is still true. .THEOREM 6. The locus of a point which moves, so that the ratio of its powers for two given circles is constant, is a coaxal circle. Given. Two circles <<g>1, ^j with centres... | |
 | Actuarial Society of America - Insurance - 1919 - 584 pages
...the length of the tangent from the point (xtyi) to the circle a? + y* + 2gx + 2fy + c = 0 (2) Find the locus of a point which moves so that the ratio of the tangents drawn from it to two fixed circles is constant. 18. Find the condition that the straight... | |
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