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The line perpendicular to the directrix and passing through the focus (that is, the line that splits the parabola through the middle) is called the "axis of symmetry". The point where the parabola intersects its axis of symmetry is called the "vertex" and is the point where the parabola is most sharply curved. The distance between the vertex ...
In this position, the hyperbolic paraboloid opens downward along the x-axis and upward along the y-axis (that is, the parabola in the plane x = 0 opens upward and the parabola in the plane y = 0 opens downward). Any paraboloid (elliptic or hyperbolic) is a translation surface, as it can be generated by a moving parabola directed by a second ...
On a parabola, the sole vertex lies on the axis of symmetry and in a quadratic of the form: + + it can be found by completing the square or by differentiation. [2] On an ellipse, two of the four vertices lie on the major axis and two lie on the minor axis. [4]
A three-dimensional version of parabolic coordinates is obtained by rotating the two-dimensional system about the symmetry axis of the parabolas. Parabolic coordinates have found many applications, e.g., the treatment of the Stark effect and the potential theory of the edges.
The second term, / , gives the distance the roots are away from the axis of symmetry. If the parabola's vertex is on the -axis, then the corresponding equation has a single repeated root on the line of symmetry, and this distance term is zero; algebraically, the discriminant = .
Suppose the line segment AC is parallel to the axis of symmetry of the parabola. Further suppose that the line segment BC lies on a line that is tangent to the parabola at B. The first proposition states: [1]: 14 The area of the triangle ABC is exactly three times the area bounded by the parabola and the secant line AB. Proof: [1]: 15–18
If the parabola is tangent to the x-axis, there is a double root, which is the x-coordinate of the contact point between the graph and parabola. If the parabola does not intersect the x-axis, there are two complex conjugate roots. Although these roots cannot be visualized on the graph, their real and imaginary parts can be. [17]
The zero level set F(t 0,(x,y)) = 0 gives the equation of the tangent line to the parabola at the point (t 0,t 0 2). The equation t 2 – 2tx + y = 0 can always be solved for y as a function of x and so, consider + = Substituting = / gives the ODE