Episode from the podcastMathsCasts: Geometry and Topology

Why are circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas called 'conic sections'? Part 1 (MathsCasts)

Released Friday, 17th January 2014

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Why are circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas called 'conic sections'? Part 1 (MathsCasts)

Friday, 17th January 2014

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We solve simultaneously the equations of a plane and a cone and show that the intersections are circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, straight lines or just the origin.

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These 'Geometry and Topology' related MathsCasts are produced by the mathematics support centres at Swinburne University, the University of Limerick and Loughborough University. They are part of an ongoing collaborative research project to develop high quality resources and investigate the effectiveness of MathsCasts to support mathematics learning. They are mostly targeted at prerequisite to first year level, in a range of subjects such as: Engineering, Sciences, Business, Computing and Technology. We have also commenced production of second year mathematics topics. MathsCasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License The three mathematics support centres can be contacted the following way: MASH Centre (Swinburne, Australia) http://www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/mathematics/mash MLC (Limerick, Ireland) http://www.ul.ie/~mlc MLSC (Loughborough, UK) http://mlsc.lboro.ac.uk

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