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.