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Show that the centers of a family of circles form a parabola

Show that the centers of the family of circles all of which are tangent to a given circle and also to a given line form a parabola.


Proof.Incomplete.

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  1. S says:

    Let r_0 be the radius of the given circle, and L be the line to which the family of circles should be tangent. This is a similar problem like the previous one, with a difference that the actual directrix of the prabola is at the distance r_0 from L.

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