Properties of Parabola
Properties of Parabola: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Congruence of Two Parabolas Properties of Parabola, Properties of Parabola Related to Focal Chord, Reflection Property of Parabola, Properties of Parabola Related to a Tangent, etc.
Important Questions on Properties of Parabola
Let and be distinct points on the parabola such that a circle with as diameter passes through the vertex of the parabola. If lies in the first quadrant and the area of the triangle is then the coordinates of can be

Let the focus of the parabola lie on the focal chord of the same parabola. If the length units, then the ratio of length to the length of the latus rectum of the parabola is

If one end of a focal chord of the parabola is , the other end lies on

Let be the equation of tangent to a parabola at the point . If the focus of the parabola is at , then the equation of its directrix is

The locus of the trisection point of any arbitrary double ordinate of the parabola is

Suppose is a rectangle in the -plane where is the origin and lie on the parabola Then must lie on the curve-

The set of values of for which at least one tangent to the parabola becomes normal to the circle , is (where is a real number)

The equation of the mirror that can reflect all incident rays from origin parallel to -axis is

Three distinct normals to the parabola are drawn through a point , then

The number of distinct normals that can be drawn to parabola from the point , is

Angle between the tangents drawn to at the points where it is intersected by the line is equal to

Let a focal chord of parabola cuts it at points and . Then is equal to

Let be a point on the parabola such that the sum of its distance from focus and point is minimum. Then the coordinates of are?

The mirror image of the directrix of the parabola in the line mirror is

If be one end of a focal chord of the parabola , then the length of the chord is

The normal to the parabola at the point meets the parabola again at the point

If be one end of a focal chord of the parabola , then the length of the chord is

If be the parameters of the end points of a focal chord for the parabola then which one is true?

If be one end of a focal chord of the parabola , then the length of the chord is

The latus rectum of the parabola , whose focal chord such that and where is focus, then length of the latus rectum (in units) is:
