Tangents and Chords of a Parabola

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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.

Keywords

conic sections, section, parabola, focus, tangent, area, directrix, coordinates, chords, tangents, parabolas, latus rectum, focal chord, parabolic segment

Galleries

Conic Sections: Parabolas

Source

G.A. Wentworth Plane And Solid Geometry (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899) 420

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