straight line through a circle's center is orthogonal to it, and if straight lines are also considered as a kind of generalized circles, for instance in inversive...
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Radical axis (category Circles)
intersecting circles is the common secant of two convenient equipower circles (see below Orthogonal cicles). For a point P {\displaystyle P} outside a circle c i...
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circle at a point P is perpendicular to the radius to that point, theorems involving tangent lines often involve radial lines and orthogonal circles....
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Power of a point (redirect from Circle power)
Determination of a circle, that intersects four circles by the same angle. Solving the Problem of Apollonius Construction of the Malfatti circles: For a given...
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Apollonian circles are two families (pencils) of circles such that every circle in the first family intersects every circle in the second family orthogonally, and...
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Zernike polynomials (redirect from Zernike's orthogonal circle polynomials)
mathematics, the Zernike polynomials are a sequence of polynomials that are orthogonal on the unit disk. Named after optical physicist Frits Zernike, laureate...
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mutually orthogonal circles. The first family consists of the circles with all possible distance ratios to two fixed foci (the same circles as in #1)...
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pencil of concentric circles are the lines through their common center (see diagram). Suitable methods for the determination of orthogonal trajectories are...
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Descartes' theorem (redirect from Soddy circles)
tangent circles, the radii of the circles satisfy a certain quadratic equation. By solving this equation, one can construct a fourth circle tangent to...
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Power center (geometry) (redirect from Radical circle)
of all three circles, then it is the center of the unique circle (the radical circle) that intersects the three given circles orthogonally; the construction...
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symmetry group is the orthogonal group O(2,R). The group of rotations alone is the circle group T. All circles are similar. A circle circumference and radius...
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In mathematics, the orthogonal group in dimension n, denoted O(n), is the group of distance-preserving transformations of a Euclidean space of dimension...
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In linear algebra, an orthogonal matrix, or orthonormal matrix, is a real square matrix whose columns and rows are orthonormal vectors. One way to express...
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mathematics, orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle are families of polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to integration over the unit circle in the...
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many circles (and hyperbolas) twisting around one another. At each point in a N-dimensional Lie group there can be N different orthogonal circles, tangent...
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Homographies of the complex plane preserve orthogonal circles...
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In geometry, Villarceau circles (/viːlɑːrˈsoʊ/) are a pair of circles produced by cutting a torus obliquely through its center at a special angle. Given...
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Pencil (geometry) (redirect from Pencil of circles)
circles is orthogonal to every circle in the pencil they determine. The circles orthogonal to two fixed circles form a pencil of circles. Two circles...
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Inversive geometry (redirect from Inverse circles)
inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps circles or lines to other circles or lines and that preserves the angles between crossing curves...
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Circumference (redirect from Circumference (circle))
is the circumference, or length, of any one of its great circles. The circumference of a circle is the distance around it, but if, as in many elementary...
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Bipolar coordinates (category Orthogonal coordinate systems)
Bipolar coordinates are a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system based on the Apollonian circles. There is also a third system, based on two poles...
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The circle group is isomorphic to the special orthogonal group S O ( 2 ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {SO} (2)} . One way to think about the circle group...
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parabolas which intersect orthogonally (see below). A circle is an ellipse with both foci coinciding at the center. Circles that share the same focus...
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separation between various types and orders of aberrations. Zernike's orthogonal circle polynomials provided a solution to the long-standing problem of the...
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square great circles (which are completely orthogonal to each other) in each of the other two 16-cells. (Completely orthogonal great circles are Clifford...
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mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal to each other...
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horizontal circles (red). The purple planes intersect at vertical circles (green). The curvature lines of a torus generate a net of orthogonal circles. A torus...
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curvature of the given curve at that point. This circle, which is the one among all tangent circles at the given point that approaches the curve most...
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any reference to circles in the definition of π, so that statements about the relation of π to the circumference and area of circles are actually theorems...
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and β as they cross. If a circle γ crosses circles α and β at equal angles, then γ is crossed orthogonally by one of the circles of antisimilitude of α and...
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