Basics of Parabola
Important Questions on Basics of Parabola
Let be a given parabola and be an extremity of its latus rectum in the first quadrant. If a chord is drawn through with slope , then the length of this chord is

A line bisecting the ordinate of a point on the parabola is drawn parallel to the axis to meet the curve at . If meets the tangent at the vertex at the point , then the coordinates of are

The point on the parabola nearest to focus has its abscissa

If be a point on the parabola and is the foot of perpendicular drawn from on the directrix of the parabola, then the length of each side of an equilateral triangle where is the focus of the parabola is

The length of the latus rectum of the parabola whose focus is and directrix is is

Equation of parabola having the extremities of its latus rectum as and is

The point lies inside the region bounded by the parabola and its latus rectum. Then

Find the length of intercept by the line on the parabola

The equation of the parabola with focus and directrix , is given by

The directrix of the parabola is

The points on the parabola whose focal distance is , are

Through the vertex (being origin) of the parabola , chords and are drawn at right angles to one another. The locus of the middle point of is

Let a circle touches the directrix of a parabola has its centre coinciding with the focus of the parabola. Then the point of intersection of the parabola and circle is

If and the line passes through the points of intersection of the parabolas and , then

The equation of parabola whose focus is and directrix is is

All the three vertices of an equilateral triangle lie on the parabola and one of its sides has a slope of Then the sum of the -coordinates of the three vertices is

A line from intersects the parabola at and . Then the locus of the centroid of (where is the origin), is

Let and be points on parabola such that . Then the range of ordinate of is

Consider the parabola Let be any fixed point inside the parabola and let be the focus of the parabola. Then the minimum value of as point moves on the parabola is

Length of the latus rectum of the parabola is

