be taken to be the angle of projection,(0),relative to the horizontal.
The envelope of a set of trajectories is, of course, a line tangential to all the individual paths,as shown in Fig.1. It, too,satisfies the equation (0) at every point common to it and the individual trajectories because, for appropriate values of x and y, a point on the envelope coincides with a point on a trajectory with some value of (0).However, the envelope has to satisfy the additional requirement that each trajectory in the family is tangent to it and that it, in turn, is tangent to every trajectory.It follows form this that the envelope must satisfy the auxiliary condition: