TEXTBOOK OF ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY
OF TWO DIMENSIONS

The book is intended to serve as a textbook for BA/BSc Hons. and Pass Course students of Indian and foreign universities. It is also meant for the engineering students and other professional competitive examinations such as AS, IES, PCS etc.

The text starts with the introduction to coordinates of a point in a plane, distance formula, area of a triangle, polar coordinates, locus and followed by the study of the straight line, transformation of axes, pair of straight lines, circle, systems of circles, parabola, ellipse, hyperbola, polar equation of a conic and tracing of conics. An appendix has been given on oblique axes. The salient features of the book are:

• Presentation of the subject in a natural way 

• Description of the concepts with justification 

• Grading of exercises 

• Exercises (solved and unsolved) after each section and a miscellaneous set of exercises at the end of each chapter 

• Some good University questions have been solved

• Notes and remarks at proper places.