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Date: 2002-10-05 17:56:48 Celestial mechanics Astrodynamics Curves Analytic geometry Ellipse Semi-minor axis Eccentricity Semi-major axis Focus Geometry Conic sections Algebraic geometry		SPACE UPDATE ACTIVITY PAGE 1 OF 4 Add to Reading List Source URL: earth.rice.edu Download Document from Source Website File Size: 325,62 KB Share Document on Facebook

	Classroom Voting Questions: Precalculus Conic Sections 1. Find an equation of a parabola that has vertex at the origin, opens right, and passes through (9, −x DocID: 1uIbf - View Document
	1 CHAPTER 2 CONIC SECTIONS 2.1 Introduction A particle moving under the influence of an inverse square force moves in an orbit that is a conic section; that is to say an ellipse, a parabola or a hyperbola. We shall prove DocID: 1tRzJ - View Document
	REVIEW OF CONIC SECTIONS In this section we give geometric definitions of parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas and derive their standard equations. They are called conic sections, or conics, because they result from inter DocID: 1tLba - View Document
	The Decemberissue of the Bulletin carried a very enjoyable article by Dr DocID: 1rsZ3 - View Document
	Some remarkable geometry – 2D and 3D – ancient and modern Adrian Oldknow The ancient Greeks defined an important class of plane curves as `conic sections’ i.e. the shapes formed when a cone is cut by a plane. Th DocID: 1roEH - View Document