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For example he shows how to deform a circle into an ellipse and proves other results on deforming conic sections.
He showed that in any hexagon formed of six tangents to a conic, the three diagonals meet at a point.
Many eighteenth-century manuals on gauging treated barrels as solids generated by rotating conic sections about their axes.
In 1865 he submitted his doctoral dissertation on a new method to determine the characteristics of conic systems to the University of Copenhagen.
Conic aspheres can also be tested with spherical wavefronts at their conic conjugate points.
The device looks like a conic bulb, which is connected to a discharge pump.
If all the vertices of a hexagon lie on a conic, and if the opposite sides intersect, then the points of intersection lie on a line.
He worked on conic sections and produced important theorems in projective geometry.
The dorsal conic spine-like structures could be a homology of cuticular spicules of polyplacophorans and aplacophorans.
Omar Khayyam gave a complete classification of cubic equations with geometric solutions found by means of intersecting conic sections.
The Steiner theorem states that the two pencils by which a conic is projected from two of its points are projectively related.
These three trajectories are known as conic sections, as they are also the curves produced by cutting a cone along different planes.
Sturm's theoretical work in mathematical physics involved the study of caustic curves, and poles and polars of conic sections.
It's the other conic sections that confuse me, like ellipses and hyperbolas.
First we should note that conic sections to Apollonius are by definition the curves formed when a plane intersects the surface of a cone.
Modernism is assumed to be a series of separate known conic elements and glittering remains.
He developed the hemicyclium, a sundial which has the hour lines drawn on the surface of a conic section giving greater accuracy.
Cavalieri also wrote on conic sections, trigonometry, optics, astronomy, and astrology.
The first students of conic sections, and possibly Theaetetus, the creator of solid geometry, were members of the Academy.
If four of the points are collinear, or two of the points coincide, no conic is created.
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In order to do this, we must first determine the social properties of a conic section.
She had written commentaries on the mathematical works of diophantus, and on the conic sections of Apollonius.
If the directrix, focus and eccentricity be given, we may employ the general method for constructing a conic.
Thus for a circular orbit with the centre of force at an excentric point, the hodograph is a conic with the pole as focus.
The centre of this involution, it is easily seen, is the centre of the conic.
The conic sections which I described on that blackboard, the learned hieroglyphics!
The pileus is first nearly cylindrical, then conic, becoming bell-shaped and finally nearly expanded, when it is umbonate.
They might be a treatise on conic sections, or a Latin Grammar, and again they might be a Book.
Similarly, all conics touching four fixed lines form a system such that any fifth tangent determines one and only one conic.
We are now almost able to see what the conic section has to do with a soap-bubble.
Excluding the general group itself, every one of these leaves either a point, a line, or a conic section unaltered.
Parabola, a conic section formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides.
Both washer-extractors and tumblers conic with a three-year limited warranty.
The Confederacy has flanked the conic Section, and is trying to escape.
The mountain is remarkable for the perfection of its conic form.
Every polar-triangle has one and only one vertex within the conic.
If every diameter is perpendicular to its conjugate the conic is a circle.
Every plane section of a quadric surface is a conic or a line-pair.
Instead of a circle or sphere we may take any conic or quadric.
Fruit medium, roundish, inclined to conic, sometimes obscurely ribbed.
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