Plane and solid analytic geometry; an elementary textbook (1905)
Ashton, Charles H. (Charles Hamilton), 1866- · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 212
ut only a few of thosewhich are of importance in Fthe study of the Calculuswill be discussed here. 101. The parabolas. — The locus of any equa-tion of tlie form y = axis called a parabola of the ^nth degree. It is usualto restrict n to valuesgreater than unity. If71 = 2, we have the ordi-nary… … 19G ANALYTIC GEOMETRY [Cii. XV, § 102 All j)arabolas are similar to one of these three formsaccording to the value given to ii. Let the student plot the locusfor various values of n. Let himalso show that, if n is an eveninteger, or a fraction with an evennumerator and an odd denomina-tor, the…
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