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Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry

This book contains the most general properties of conics which makes them interesting in a very lucid way .Just learning this properties makes problem solving easier..

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Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry

This book contains the most general properties of conics which makes them interesting in a very lucid way .Just learning this properties makes problem solving easier..

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o ELEMENTS CONIC SECTIONS ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY BY JAMES H. COFFIN, A. M. FROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, AND AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES, ASTRONOMICAL TABLES, ETC. STEREOTYPE EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED. NEW YORK: COLLINS & BROTHER, PUBLISHERS, 370 BROADWAY, F 374 Fatered according to Act of Congress, in the year 7348, By JAMES H. COFFIN, {in the Clerk's Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvanic. PREFACE. Tue following treatise has been prepared to meet the wants of the author, in the instruction of his classes. He has felt the need of a work on the Conic Sections, that was not, on the one hand, so prolix and tedious in the method of demonstration as to render the study repulsive to the student; nor, on the other, so meager as to the number of properties discussed, as to give him but a very imperfect idea of the interesting features of these curves, and ma- terially to cripple his future course of study, which, if properly conducted, requires a thorough knowledge of them. In the prepa- ation of this work, it has been the aim to avoid both these defects : so as, on the one hand, to render it as full and complete as the most thorough works in use upon the subject; and, on the other, to lighten the labor of the student, by simplifying the demonstrations * without rendering them less rigid—thus giving him a more clear and perfect knowledge of the properties discussed, and at the same time diminishing the size of the book. The properties of the Conic Sections may be investigated by either of two quite dissimilar methods; each of which has its pe- zuliar advantages. We may study them directly from the figure itself, in the same manner as in elementary geometry; and this method, which is called the geometrical, has the advantage of af-

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