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Bisoptic curves of hyperbolas

  • Thierry Dana-Picard*
  • , Giora Mann
  • , Nurit Zehavi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Given a hyperbola, we study its bisoptic curves, i.e. the geometric locus of points through which passes a pair of tangents making a fixed angle θ or 180° - θ. This question has been addressed in a previous paper for parabolas and for ellipses, showing hyperbolas and spiric curves, respectively. Here the requested geometric locus can be empty. If not, it is a punctured spiric curve, and two cases occur: the curve can have either one loop or two loops. Finally, we reconstruct explicitly the spiric curve as the intersection of a plane with a self-intersecting torus.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)762-781
Number of pages20
JournalInternational Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Volume45
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • bisoptic curves
  • conic sections
  • toric sections

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