Given an arbitrary point P located "outside" a parabola, the tangent or tangents to the parabola through P can be constructed by drawing the circle having PF as a diameter, where F is the focus. Then locate the points A and B at which the circle cuts the vertical tangent through V. The points T_A and T_B (which can collapse to a single point in the degenerate case) are then the points of tangency of the lines PA and PB and the parabola (Wells 1991).
The curvature, arc length, and tangential angle are