Circles and its Equations
Circles and its Equations: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Circle, Equation of Circle, Equation of Circle in General Form, Equation of Circle in Diameter Form, Equation of Circle in Center-radius Form, Equation of Circle Touching x-axis, Centre of Similitude of Circle, etc.
Important Questions on Circles and its Equations
Two circles touch each other internally. The radii of these circles are and respectively. Find the length of the largest chord of the outer circle which touches the internal circle at a point?

Tangents drawn from the point to the circle
touch the circle at the points and . The equation of the circumcircle of the triangle is

Extremities of a diagonal of a rectangle are and Find the equation of the tangents to the circumcircle of a rectangle which are parallel to this diagonal.

The circle passes through two fixed points for every real number . The minimum value of the radius of circle is

The radius of the circle, having centre at (2, 1), whose one of the chord is a diameter of the circle

If a circle passes through the points of intersection of the coordinate axes with the lines , then the value of is:

If two diameters of a circle of circumference lie along the lines and then the equation of circle is

If and are ends of a diameter of a circle which intersects -axis at and then is equal to

The equation of a circle with centre on axis and passing through the origin and the point is

The number of integer values of for which the equation represents a circle whose radius cannot exceed , is

Let be the circle whose diameter is the line segment formed by the line intercepted by the coordinate axes. Then also passes through the point.

Consider a family of circles which are passing through the point and are tangent to axis. If are the coordinate of the centre of the circles, then the set of values of is given by the interval

is a point on circle . Which of the following is a point on the circle at units distance from ?

If the abscissa and ordinates of two points and are roots of the equations and respectivaly, then the equation of the circle with as diameter, is

The other end of the diameter through the point on the circle is

The area of the circle is The value of is equal to

Centre of circle whose normals are , is

Let be two points and be a point such that area of is sq. units and . Then number of positions of , in the plane, is

The equation of the circle concentric with the circle and touching -axis

If the circles and touch each other internally, then is equal to
