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    This document contains 17 problems involving finding equations of lines (tangents, normals, chords) to parabolic curves and lengths/points related to those lines. The problems cover topics like finding equations of tangents/normals to parabolas, finding points of intersection/contact of those lines, finding midpoints and lengths of chords on parabolas, and relationships between geometric elements of parabolas like focal chords and the latus rectum.

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    TENSOR CLASSES

    PARABOLA ASSIGNMENT

    01. Find the length of the chord cut off from the line 3 x  y  a  0 by the parabola y2=4ax

    02. Show that the length of the focal chord of y 2  4ax inclined at ‘  ’ to its axis is 4a cos ec 2  .

    03. A double ordinate of y 2  4 px subtends a right-angle at its vertex. Show that its length is 8p.

    04. Find the length of the common chord of the parabola y 2  4ax and x 2  4ay .

    05. (4,8) is one end of a focal chord of y 2  16 x . Find the other end.
    06. The lengths of the segments of a focal chord of a parabola are 3 and 6. Find the length of the latus rectum.

    07. Find the equation to the focal chord of y 2  4ax one end of which is the point ‘t’.

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    08. The parabola y 2  2 x cuts a chord of length from a line through the vertex. Find its equation.
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    I. Find a,b or c when the line

    1) ax - y + 2 = 0 touches y2=16x 2) x cos   y sin   3 touches y2=8x. (  )


    Find the equation to the tangent to the parabola
    1) y2=20x, which makes equal intercepts 2) y2=8x, inclined at  / 3 to x-axis
    3)The line 2x-y+2=0 is a tangent y2=16x, and find the point of contact
    4) Find the equation to the common tangent of y2 = 4ax and x2=4ay

    II. Find the equation to the Normal to the parabola


    1) y 2  4 x , perpendicular to x+3y+1=0 2) y 2  5 x , inclined at 300 to x-axis

    III. The Normal at P on the parabola meets the curve again in Q. Find Q, if
    1) P=(2,4) and parabola , y 2  8 x 2) P=(4,6) and parabola , y 2  9 x

    IV. Find P, if the line


    .
    1) y+2x-12a=0 is Normal at P to y 2  4ax 2) 2x-y-12=0 is a Normal at P to y 2  4 x
    V. Find the length of the Normal chord at
    1) P=(2,4) on y 2  8 x

    2) Find the least length of a Normal chord of the parabola , y 2  4ax

    3) If the Normal at a point P on the parabola y 2  4ax meets the axis in G; Prove that SP=SG

    4) Find the point on the parabola , y 2  4ax , the Normal at which terminated by the axis is equal in length to
    the latus- rectum.
    VI. The two lines given are tangents to the parabola given. Find the equation to the chord joining their
    points of contact

    1) 4 y  9 x  4 and 4 y  x  36 to y2=9x 2) 2x+y+1=0 and x-2y+8=0 to y2=8x

    VII. Find the point of intersection of tangents drawn at the ends of the chord

    1) 2x-y+4=0 to y2=8x 2) x cos   y sin   p to y2=4ax

    VIII.Find the mid-point of the chord of contact of the point

    1) (-1,4) w.r.t y2=16x 2) (2,5) w.r.t y2=8x

    IX. Find the length of the chord of contact of the point

    1) (-6,4) w.r.t y2=8x 2) (5,2) w.r.t x2=8y

    X. Find the points of contact of the tangents drawn from the point

    1) (2,3) to y2=4x 2) (-2,-3) to x2=4y

    XI. Find the equation to the chord of the parabola.

    1. y2 = 8x, which is bisected at (2, -3) 2. y2 = 16x, whose mid-point is (3, 4)

    XII. Find the mid-point of the chord

    1. 2x - y + 4 = 0 of the parabola y2 = 8x. 2. 2y - x + 4 = 0 of the parabola x2 = 8y.

    XIII.Find the length of the chord of the parabola

    1. y2 = 16x, whose mid-point is (3, 4) 2. y2 = 8x, whose mid-point is (10, 4)

    XIV.Find the point of intersection of the tangents at the ends of the chord of the parabola

    1. y2 + 4x = 0, whose mid-point is (-2, 2) 2. y2 = 16x, whose mid-point is (3, 4)

    XV. Find the end points of the chord of the parabola

    1. y2 = 8x, whose mid-point is (10, -4) 2. x2 = 8y, whose mid-point is (2, 1)

    XVI.Find the equation to the pair of tangents drawn from the point
    1. (2, 3) to the parabola, y2 = 4x. 2. (2, 5) to y2 = 8x.
    XVII.Find the angle between the tangents drawn from the point
    1. (1, 4) to y2 = 4x. 2. (3, 8) to y2 = 12x.

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