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A SECOND MEMOIR ON SKEW SURFACES, OTHERWISE SCROLLS. [340
I refrain on the present occasion from a more particular discussion of the foregoing
six species of quartic scrolls. I establish two other species, as follows:
Quartic Scroll, Seventh Species, S( 1, 2, 2), with nodal directrix line, and nodal directrix
conic which meet, and with a simple directrix conic which meets the nodal conic in
tivo points.
44. We see, d priori, that the scroll generated as above will be of the order 4,
that is, a quartic scroll. In fact using the formula (ante, No. 5),
Order = 2 mnp — cum — (in — 7p,
Simple conic, n = 2, /3 = 1,
Line , p = l, 7=2,
45. Take (x = 0, y = 0) for the equations of the directrix line, z = 0 for the equation
of the plane of the simple conic, w= 0 for that of the plane of the nodal conic; since
the conics intersect in two points, they lie on a quadric surface, say the surface TJ= 0;
the equations of the simple conic thus are z = 0, TJ = 0; those of the nodal conic are
w — 0, U = 0. The directrix line x = 0, y = 0 meets the nodal conic; that is, U must
vanish identically for x = 0, y = 0, w = 0; and this will be the case if only the term
in z 2 is wanting; that is, we must have
U = (a, h, 0, d, f, g, h, l, m, n\x, y, z, w) 2 .
But we may in the first instance omit the condition in question, and write
U = (a, h, c, d, f, g, h, l, m, n\x, y, z, wf ;
this would lead to a sextic instead of a quartic scroll.
46. The equations of a generating line (since it meets the directrix line x=0, y=0)
may be taken to be
x= ay,
the condition in order to the intersection of the generating line with the nodal conic
is at once found to be
aa 2 + 2ha + h + 2/3 (f+ga) + c/3 2 = 0,
and that for its intersection with the simple conic
aa 2 4- 2ha + h + 26 (m + la) 4- dO 2 = 0 ;
and writing the equations of the generating line in the form