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Conic Sections Parabolas

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Conic Section Showing A Parabola
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....
Conic Section Showing Parabola
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."...
Conic Section Showing Parabola
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."...
Conic Section Showing Parabola
Illustration showing the definition of a parabola as a conic section. The plane cuts the cone parallel to one element....
Parabola
One of the three species of conic sections is the parabola....
Parabola Foci Properties
The segments between the point of intersection of two tangents to a conic and their points of contact are seen from a focus under equal angles. the ratio of the distances of any point on a conic from...
Parabola With Coordinates and Latus Rectum
Illustration of a parabola showing that any point of a parabola is the mean proportional between the latus rectum (focal chord) and the abscissa (x-coordinate)....
Parabola With Focus and Directrix
Illustration of a parabola - a curve which is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a fixed point in the plane is always equal to its distance from a fixed line in the p...
Parabola With Focus and Directrix
Illustration of a parabola - a curve which is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a fixed point (focus) in the plane is always equal to its distance from a fixed line ...
Point on Parabola
Illustration of a parabola showing point P is equidistant to the focus and the directrix....
Point on Parabola
Illustration of a parabola. "If a line PT is drawn from any point P of the curve, bisecting the angle between PF and the perpendicular from P to the directrix, every point of the line PT, except P, i...
Tangent to a Parabola
Illustration of a tangent line drawn from an external point to a parabola....
Tangents and Chords of a Parabola
Illustration showing that the area of a parabolic segment made by a chord is two thirds the area of the triangle formed by the chord and the tangents drawn through the ends of the chord....
Tangents to a Parabola
Illustration showing that if two tangents RP and RQ are drawn from a point R to a parabola, the line drawn through R parallel to the axis bisects the chord of contact....

 

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