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The locus of a variable point whose chord of contact w.r.t. the hyperbola subtends a right angle at the origin is
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Given,
The equation of the given hyperbola is
Now let be the pole of a chord of the hyperbola
Then the straight line is the polar of the point w.r.t. the hyperbola and so its equation is
Now the center of the hyperbola is the origin, let it be point ,
Now making homogeneous with the help of , the combined equation of and is
Now the chord subtends a right angle at
Therefore the lines and given by are perpendicular and so in the equation , we have the coefficient of coefficient of
Thus locus is
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