isogonal trajectory
Let a one-parametric family of plane curves have the differential equation
(1) |
We want to determine the isogonal trajectories of this family, i.e. the curves intersecting all members of the family under a given angle, which is denoted by .For this purpose, we denote the slope angle of any curve at such an intersection point by and the slope angle of at the same point by . Then
and accordingly
where means the slope of . Thus the equation
(2) |
is satisfied by the derivative of the ordinate of . In other , (2) is the differential equation of all isogonal trajectories of the given family of curves.
Note. In the special case , it’s a question of orthogonal trajectories.