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এখানে আমরা “Power of a point” নামে অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটা থিওরেম নিয়ে আলোচনা করব। তো শুরু করা যাক। নিচের চিত্রটা দেখ। চিত্রে ABAB এবং CDCD জ্যা দুটি পরস্পর PP বিন্দুতে ছেদ করেছে। আমরা AP, BP, CPAP,\ BP,\ CP এর মান জানি। DPDP এর মান বের করতে হবে।

আমরা DPDP এর মান কিভাবে বের করতে পারি?

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Let's say that we are given the above diagram, and we want to find the length of AEAE. Don't worry, we are told the lengths of BEBE, DEDE, and CECE, so if we can find AEAE in terms of those lengths, life is good. Unfortunately, AA, BB, CC, and DD are just four random points on a random circle, and we definitely can't assume that EE is the center of the circle.

Looks like we'll need to analyze this circle set-up a bit more closely. It seems like this diagram is a bit empty though. What could we draw to make things more familiar to us?

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This post addresses the tangent/degenerate case of power of a point.

Power of a Point states that, in the following diagram,

PB‾×AP‾=PC‾×PD‾\overline{PB} \times \overline{AP}= \overline{PC} \times \overline{PD} always holds. But what happens if CP‾\overline{CP} or BP‾\overline{BP} becomes, instead of a secant, a tangent to the circle? i.e.

so AA coincides with BB?

Amazingly (or un-amazingly), Power of a Point still holds, just in a different form, namely BP‾2=PC‾×PD‾\overline{BP}^2 = \overline{PC} \times \overline{PD}, and can be proved with the same method used to prove the "original" Power of a Point.

Essentially, the two similar triangles are BDPBDP and BCPBCP because ∠DBP=∠BCP\angle DBP= \angle BCP by inscribed angles and ∠BPD=∠BPC\angle BPD = \angle BPC. From this, we get BP‾PC‾=PD‾BP‾BP‾2=PC‾×PD‾\begin{align*} \frac{\overline{BP}}{\overline{PC}} &= \frac{\overline{PD}}{\overline{BP}} \\ \overline{BP}^2 &= \overline{PC}\times\overline{PD} \end{align*} and we are done.

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Diagram 1

What types of segments are intersecting within circle O? [See Diagram 1]

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Type a concept, like “slope” or “photosynthesis”.

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