Conic Sections
Imagine there are two cone-shaped paper drinking cups, each fastened to the other at its point, or vertex. The figure that would result is described mathematically as a right circular c...
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Conic Sections
A conic section is the plane curve formed by the intersection of a plane and a right-circular, two-napped cone. Such a cone is shown here.
The cone is the surface formed by all the line...
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Conic Section
The three conic sections are the parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse (the circle is considered a special case of an ellipse). They first arose in the fourth century b.c. in the work of the ...
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Conic Sections
Conic Sections
Conic Section