A circle and a line , which does not intersect the circle, are given in the plane. Determine the intersection of all circles with diameters , where is any pair of points on the line for which points on the circle satisfying and exist.
Turkish Mathematical Olympiad
Solution
Let be the center and be the radius of the circle . If and where the points , , , lie on the circle ; then by Miquel's theorem for the triangle , the circumcircles of the triangles and intersect at a point lying on the side .
Considering the powers of the points and with respect to these circles we obtain and . In particular, , and is perpendicular to . Then we also have . Hence, for any pair satisfying the conditions of the problem, the circle with diameter passes through two points on the line which are at a distance away from the line . Since , and are independent of and , these two points are constant and form the intersection set.
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