Circle and a Point
Circle and a Point: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Interaction between Point and a Circle, Position of a Point with Respect To a Circle, Distance of a Point from a Circle, Greatest Distance of a Point from a Circle, Least Distance of a Point from a Circle, etc.
Important Questions on Circle and a Point
is a point on circle . Which of the following is a point on the circle at units distance from ?

The maximum distance of any point on the circle from the Centre of the ellipse is

Find the greatest distance of the point from the circle .

The equation of the radical axis of the circles and is

If the points and are conjugated with respect the circle , then the value of is

If the point lies inside the circle and the circle does not touch or intersect the coordinates axes, then

If is an interior point of a circle which neither touches nor intersects the axes, then set for is

The point (where denotes the greatest integer function) lying inside the region bounded by the circle and then :

If the point lies in the smaller region enclosed by and and then the value of is equal to (where represents greatest integer function)

From the point on the circle a chord is drawn and extended to a point , such that ( lies between & ). Then, the locus of the point is

If the minimum distance between the curves is equal to , then the value of is :

If a chord of the circle makes equal intercepts of length on the coordinate axes and the range of values of is then find where [] represents the greatest integer function.

If the points and form an obtuse angle triangle (obtuse angled at angle ), then sum of all the possible integral values of is

If and are the maximum and minimum values of for pair of real numbers which satisfy the equation , then the value of is

The point at which the line segment joining and subtends an obtuse angle is

From the point on the circle a chord is drawn and extended to a point such that ( lies between & ). The locus of the point is

Let be an ordered pair of real numbers satisfying the equation If the maximum and minimum values of are and respectively, then the value of is equal to

Let the points and form an obtuse angled triangle (obtuse angled at angle ), then the complete set of values of is

The value of such that the power of the point with respect to the circle is is

The sum of the minimum and maximum distances of the point to the circle is
