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It is the pedal curve of the parabola where the pedal-point is taken as the reflection of the focus in the directrix.
The parabola results when the plane is parallel to a generating line of the cone.
As we saw earlier, x-axis is the pedal curve of the parabola with respect to its focus.
Let us begin where we left off, with the quadratic curves known as the circle, ellipse, hyperbola and parabola.
At an eccentricity of exactly one you have a parabola, and for eccentricities greater than one the orbit traces a hyperbola.
The circumcircle of a triangle formed by three tangents to a parabola passes through the focus of the parabola.
He defines evolutes and involutes of curves and, after giving some elementary properties, finds the evolutes of the cycloid and of the parabola.
The catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola rolling along a straight line.
We conclude that A is the only point of intersection of that line with the parabola.
If the focus of the parabola is taken as the centre of inversion, the parabola inverts to a cardioid.
This exactly means that the directrix is the polar of the focus, while the focus is the pole of the directrix with respect to the parabola.
For aggressiveness, the coupe's hood rises higher, with multi-focal parabola headlamps cut into the forward edge.
The circumcircle of a triangle formed by three tangents to a parabola, passes through the focus of the parabola.
In other words, x-axis consists of the feet of the perpendiculars from the focus to the tangents to the parabola.
A feed system is placed with its phase center at the focus of the parabola.
If the cusp of the cardioid is taken as the centre of inversion, the cardioid inverts to a parabola.
I was in my usual spot in the library, graphing an inverse parabola, when a shadow fell over me.
He read Wallis's method for finding a square of equal area to a parabola and a hyperbola which used indivisibles.
In mathematics Jungius proved that the catenary is not a parabola.
The oscillating water column features a parabola, the two arms of which face out into the water, and a partially submerged structure.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As a matter of fact the path of a projectile in vacuo is only approximately a parabola.
The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity.
The pole O of the hodograph is inside on or outside the circle, according as the orbit is an ellipse, parabola or hyperbola.
With a certain speed it will assume the parabola, and with a greater the hyperbola.
If a parabola roll on another parabola, their vertices coinciding, the focus of the first traces out the directrix of the second.
If the air-resistance be neglected, it can be shown that the trajectory is a parabola.
The vertex of the parabola is at the level of the greatest velocity.
The resulting diagram is a curve which is approximately a parabola.
A heavy silver match-box was tossed in a parabola through the air.
You will remember that a Republican State is represented by a parabola.
Its fiery parabola was limned against the sky toward the east.
But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
But from the right pocket a piece of paper flew out and describing a parabola in the air fell at Luzhin's feet.
Is the orbit that of an ellipse, or a circle, or a parabola?
Its actual path will be a curve, which in this case is a parabola.
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