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 More options Jul 24, 7:52 am
Newsgroups: sci.math
From: conrad <con...@lawyer.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:52:26 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 7:52 am
Subject: orthogonal trajectories
I'm showing that a given family of curves are
orthogonal trajectories of each other.

I have the two curves:
x^2 + y^2 = ax
x^2 + y^2 = by

It is said that the two circles intersect
at the origin.  How is this evident
other than by plugging in 0?

--
conrad


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