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conic section) The four types of curve that may be obtained by cutting a single or double right-circular cone with a plane (two-dimensional surface). Curve obtained when a conical surface is intersected by a plane. If the intersecting plane cuts both extensions of the cone, it yields a hyperbola; if it is parallel to the side of the cone, it produces a parabola. Other intersecting planes produce circles or ellipses. The Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga wrote eight books with the title Conic Sections, which superseded previous work on the subject by Aristarchus and Euclid. |
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| 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. This honors course includes concepts typically covered in intermediate, advanced, and college algebra, including functions and graphing, exponential and logarithmic functions, theory of equations, conic sections, matrices and determinants, and an introduction to probability. |
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