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It is named after the English mathematician John Wallis, who was one of the first to use Cartesian methods to study conic sections. [1] Figure 2. Wallis's Conical Edge with a = 1.01, b = c = 1 Figure 1. Wallis's Conical Edge with a = b = c = 1
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In geometry, the midpoint theorem describes a property of parallel chords in a conic. It states that the midpoints of parallel chords in a conic are located on a common line. The common line or line segment for the midpoints is called the diameter. For a circle, ellipse or hyperbola the diameter goes through its center.
A conic is the curve obtained as the intersection of a plane, called the cutting plane, with the surface of a double cone (a cone with two nappes).It is usually assumed that the cone is a right circular cone for the purpose of easy description, but this is not required; any double cone with some circular cross-section will suffice.
In the Cartesian coordinate system, the graph of a quadratic equation in two variables is always a conic section – though it may be degenerate, and all conic sections arise in this way. The equation will be of the form A x 2 + B x y + C y 2 + D x + E y + F = 0 with A , B , C not all zero. {\displaystyle Ax^{2}+Bxy+Cy^{2}+Dx+Ey+F=0{\text{ with ...
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In Euclidean geometry, a circumconic is a conic section that passes through the three vertices of a triangle, [1] and an inconic is a conic section inscribed in the sides, possibly extended, of a triangle. [2] Suppose A, B, C are distinct non-collinear points, and let ABC denote the triangle whose vertices are A, B, C.
More generally, when the directrix is an ellipse, or any conic section, and the apex is an arbitrary point not on the plane of , one obtains an elliptic cone [4] (also called a conical quadric or quadratic cone), [5] which is a special case of a quadric surface.