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
If is the focal chord of the parabola , such that . Then the length of is (where is focus)

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

The locus of the foot of perpendicular drawn from focus upon a variable tangent to the parabola is

If tangents are drawn from a point to the parabola with focus such that the lengths of the tangents are and then is equal to

If and are lengths of two perpendicular focal chord of parabola then harmonic mean of and is

If the tangents at two points and on a parabola intersect at the point then equation of directrix is

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

A ray of light travelling along the line strikes the surface of the curve , then the equation of line along which the reflected ray travels, is

Given the curve , . If the length of the sub-tangent to the curve at is , the value of is :

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

If a focal chord of parabola cuts it at points and Then the value of is equal to

The line is a tangent to a parabola at point , intersects the directrix at and the tangent at vertex at . Focus of parabola is then find the value of .

The figure shows a parabola with focus . The equation of the tangent at a point on the parabola is given by . If the projection of point on the directrix is , and , find .

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

Chord joining two distinct points and (both are variable points) on the parabola always passes through a fixed point Then, which of the following statements is correct?

Let be the focal chord of the parabola If the centre of the circle having as its diameter lies on the line and the length of chord is units then

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
