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Conic sections

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that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.
(Geom.) See under Conic.

See also: Conic Section



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Eight pages of "quickies" are followed by 26 pages of more complex problems in the areas of combinatorics and number theory, functions and polynomials, expression and identities, numerical approximation, algebraic inequalities, trigonometric inequalities, geometric inequalities, the triangle, Cevian lines, central symmetry, conic sections, solid geometry, higher dimensions, vectors and matrices, and calculus.
Students can graph conic sections, then determine and display their characteristics.
This is partly because of their amazing shapes, which seem to have been created from conventional conic sections by the wind.
 
 
 
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