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  2. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    The polar coordinates used most commonly for the hyperbola are defined relative to the Cartesian coordinate system that has its origin in a focus and its x-axis pointing toward the origin of the "canonical coordinate system" as illustrated in the first diagram.

  3. Focus (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, focuses or foci (/ ˈ f oʊ k aɪ /; sg.: focus) are special points with reference to which any of a variety of curves is constructed. For example, one or two foci can be used in defining conic sections , the four types of which are the circle , ellipse , parabola , and hyperbola .

  4. Confocal conic sections - Wikipedia

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    A pencil of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas is specified by choice of linear eccentricity c (the x-coordinate of one focus) and can be parametrized by the semi-major axis a (the x-coordinate of the intersection of a specific conic in the pencil and the x-axis). When 0 < a < c the conic is a hyperbola; when c < a the conic is an ellipse.

  5. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    For a rectangular or equilateral hyperbola, one whose asymptotes are perpendicular, there is an alternative standard form in which the asymptotes are the coordinate axes and the line x = y is the principal axis. The foci then have coordinates (c, c) and (−c, −c). [9] Circle: + =, Ellipse:

  6. Coordinate systems for the hyperbolic plane - Wikipedia

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    The Weierstrass coordinates of a point are the Cartesian coordinates of the point when the point is mapped in the hyperboloid model of the hyperbolic plane, the x-axis is mapped to the (half) hyperbola ( , , +) and the origin is mapped to the point (0,0,1). [1]

  7. Lemniscate of Bernoulli - Wikipedia

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    A lemniscate of Bernoulli and its two foci F 1 and F 2 The lemniscate of Bernoulli is the pedal curve of a rectangular hyperbola Sinusoidal spirals (r n = –1 n cos(nθ), θ = π/2) in polar coordinates and their equivalents in rectangular coordinates:

  8. Focal conics - Wikipedia

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    F: focus of the red parabola and vertex of the blue parabola. In geometry, focal conics are a pair of curves consisting of [1] [2] either an ellipse and a hyperbola, where the hyperbola is contained in a plane, which is orthogonal to the plane containing the ellipse. The vertices of the hyperbola are the foci of the ellipse and its foci are the ...

  9. Hyperbolic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The hyperbolic coordinates are formed on the original picture of G. de Saint-Vincent, which provided the quadrature of the hyperbola, and transcended the limits of algebraic functions. In 1875 Johann von Thünen published a theory of natural wages [ 1 ] which used geometric mean of a subsistence wage and market value of the labor using the ...