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  2. Angle - Wikipedia

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    The angle between the two curves at P is defined as the angle between the tangents A and B at P. The angle between a line and a curve (mixed angle) or between two intersecting curves (curvilinear angle) is defined to be the angle between the tangents at the point of intersection.

  3. Tangential angle - Wikipedia

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    The tangential angle φ for an arbitrary curve A in P. In geometry, the tangential angle of a curve in the Cartesian plane, at a specific point, is the angle between the tangent line to the curve at the given point and the x-axis. [1] (Some authors define the angle as the deviation from the direction of the curve at some fixed starting point.

  4. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    A hyperbola is an open curve with two branches, ... The tangent at a point bisects the angle between the lines ¯, ¯. This is ...

  5. Tangent - Wikipedia

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    The angle between two curves at a point where they intersect is defined as the angle between their tangent lines at that point. More specifically, two curves are said to be tangent at a point if they have the same tangent at a point, and orthogonal if their tangent lines are orthogonal. [18]

  6. Horn angle - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a horn angle, also called a cornicular angle, is a type of curvilinear angle defined as the angle formed between a circle and a straight line tangent to it, or, more generally, the angle formed between two curves at a point where they are tangent to each other.

  7. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    Let O 1 and O 2 be the centers of the two circles, C 1 and C 2 and let r 1 and r 2 be their radii, with r 1 > r 2; in other words, circle C 1 is defined as the larger of the two circles. Two different methods may be used to construct the external and internal tangent lines. External tangents Construction of the outer tangent

  8. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    A conic is the curve obtained as the intersection of a plane, called the cutting plane, with the surface of a double cone (a cone with two nappes).It is usually assumed that the cone is a right circular cone for the purpose of easy description, but this is not required; any double cone with some circular cross-section will suffice.

  9. Confocal conic sections - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, two conic sections are called confocal if they have the same foci. Because ellipses and hyperbolas have two foci, there are confocal ellipses, confocal hyperbolas and confocal mixtures of ellipses and hyperbolas. In the mixture of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas, any ellipse intersects any hyperbola orthogonally (at right angles).