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hyperbola

[hahy-pur-buh-luh] / haɪˈpɜr bə lə /


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We will see that the equation of a hyperbola looks the same as the equation of an ellipse, except it is a difference rather than a sum.

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There are four conics—the circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.

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We define a hyperbola as all points in a plane where the difference of their distances from two fixed points is constant.

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Sometimes the equation for a hyperbola needs to be first placed in standard form before we graph it.

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But after you have demonstrated to him the properties of the hyperbola and its asymptote, the apparent absurdity vanishes.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock




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