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Some Properties of Parabolic Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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If the tangent at a point P on the parabolic curve cy=xn meet the axis of x at M, it is a well-known property that the area between the radius vector OP and the are OP is n times that between the arc OP and the two tangents OM, MP, O being the origin and n > 1. The converse is also true; for taking any point O on a curve as origin and the tangent at O as axis of x, let us seek for the locus of P if the area between OP and the arc OP be n times the area between the arc OP and the tangents OM, MP.

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