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Conic Section Showing Parabola
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Description: Illustration showing the definition of a parabola as a conic section. "The section of a right circular cone made by a plane parallel to one, and only one, element of the surface is a parabola."
Source: G.A. Wentworth Plane And Solid Geometry (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899) 422
Keywords: conic sections, section, parabola, parabolas, directrix, focus, latus rectum, focal chord, coordinates, parabolic segment
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