General Equation of a Circle
General Equation of a Circle: Overview
This topic covers the concept of Equation of Circle in General Form.
Important Questions on General Equation of a Circle
The circle passes through two fixed points for every real number . The minimum value of the radius of circle is

Four distinct points and lie on a circle where , then the value of

If the circle is mid-way between the circles and , then

If two circles and have equal radius, then locus of is


A rectangle is inscribed in the circle . If the co-ordinates of and are , then the other two vertices of the rectangle are:

Let a circle represented as . If has repeated roots as and has roots as and centre of the circle is given by , then

A circle passes through the points . If its centre lies on the line , then its radius is equal to

A circle has its centre in the first quadrant and passes through . If this circle makes intercepts of length and respectively on and , its equation is

If the radius of the circle is , then the point lies on the circle

Let be the equation of circle. If has equal roots and has roots then the radius of the circle is

The equation of a circle with centre at and passes through the point is

The equation of a circle with center at and circumference of units is

The radius of a circle whose centre is and one of the chords is a diameter of the circle is units.

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

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

On what condition the equation may represent a circle?

Show that the locus of a point, such that the ratio of its distances from two given points is constant , is a circle. Hence show that the circle cannot pass through the given points.

Find the values of for which the family of the lines ,
(a) may interesect the circle in two distinct points,
(b) may touch the circle , and
(c) does not meet the circle where

On the circle , find the point nearest to the line and calculate the distance between the point and the line
