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  2. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    k = 1 is the tangent line to the right of the circles looking from c 1 to c 2. k = −1 is the tangent line to the right of the circles looking from c 2 to c 1. The above assumes each circle has positive radius. If r 1 is positive and r 2 negative then c 1 will lie to the left of each line and c 2 to the right, and the two tangent lines will ...

  3. Tractrix - Wikipedia

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    The essential property of the tractrix is constancy of the distance between a point P on the curve and the intersection of the tangent line at P with the asymptote of the curve. The tractrix might be regarded in a multitude of ways: It is the locus of the center of a hyperbolic spiral rolling (without skidding) on a straight line.

  4. Implicit curve - Wikipedia

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    A curve point (,) is regular if the first partial derivatives (,) and (,) are not both equal to 0.. The equation of the tangent line at a regular point (,) is (,) + (,) =,so the slope of the tangent line, and hence the slope of the curve at that point, is

  5. Unit circle - Wikipedia

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    Since C = 2πr, the circumference of a unit circle is 2π. In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. [1] Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Euclidean plane.

  6. File:Unit Circle Definitions of Six Trigonometric Functions.svg

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    English: All of the six trigonometric functions of an arbitrary angle θ can be defined geometrically in terms of a unit circle centred at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate plane.

  7. Descartes' theorem - Wikipedia

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    When they are tangent, they form a quadruple of tangent circles with the -axis and with the circle for their mediant (+) / (+). [ 35 ] The Ford circles belong to a special Apollonian gasket with root quadruple ( 0 , 0 , 1 , 1 ) {\displaystyle (0,0,1,1)} , bounded between two parallel lines, which may be taken as the x {\displaystyle x} -axis ...

  8. Osculating circle - Wikipedia

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    This circle, which is the one among all tangent circles at the given point that approaches the curve most tightly, was named circulus osculans (Latin for "kissing circle") by Leibniz. The center and radius of the osculating circle at a given point are called center of curvature and radius of curvature of the curve at that point.

  9. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    It follows that at least one tangent line to γ must pass through any given point in the plane. If y > x 3 and y > 0 then each point (x,y) has exactly one tangent line to γ passing through it. The same is true if y < x 3 y < 0. If y < x 3 and y > 0 then each point (x,y) has exactly three distinct