CONIC SECTIONS

• Introduction to Analytic Geometry
• Focus Definition of Parabola applet
• Parabola with Horizontal Directrix applet
• Circles
• Derive the formula for the area of a circle
  
• Ellipses
• Trace out an ellipse from definition
• Ellipse applet
• An elliptic reflector (shows property)
• Foci of an ellipse applet
• Hyperbolas
• A hyperbolic reflector (shows property)
• Graph a hyperbola -- use your calculator
• Hyperbola applet
• Parabolas
• Problems -- click on the colored circles at the bottom of the page
• A parabolic reflector (shows property)
• Graphing Quadratics in y applet
• Demonstration of how conics are formed
• Graphing conics applet
• Foci-Directrix applet
• Rectangular and Parametric Forms of Conic Sections
• Transformations of Conics
  
• Systems of Second-Degree Equations and Inequalities
• Polar Equations of Conics
• Polar Form of Conics
• Which conic section do we have?
• Summaries and Reviews
  

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