Statement: The families of and
are mutually orthogonal.
Consider .
Apply derivative on each side with respect to .
Substitute .
.
Slope of is
.
Consider .
Apply derivative on each side with respect to .
Substitute .
.
Slope of is
.
The product of slopes of and
:
.
Since the product of slopes is ,
and
are orthogonal.
The statement is true.
\The statement is true.