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Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...found to be V (h 2) = 2a; 2at1t2. The tangents at the points (at?, 2at and (at.?, 2at2) are ty = x at?, and ty--x at?. The point of intersection of these two tangents is clearly atxt2, a (t1 t2). The point whose coordinates are (at2, 2at) may, for brevity, be called the point t. In the following articles we shall prove some important properties of the parabola making use of the above substitution. and the equation to the straight line through the intersection of (1) and (2) perpendicular to (3) is x /l 1 1;/ --=
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