Everything you ever wanted to know about
Conic Sections
A class project designed to help serious students understand Conic Sections.
- The Geometry of Conic Sections: The Focus/Directrix Property
Why Conic Sections have the Focus/Directrix Property: that PF/PD = e where P is a point on the conic, F is the focus, D is the directrix, and e is eccentricity.
- Standard Equation for Conic Sections in Polar Coordinates.
- Standard Equations for Conic Sections in Rectangular Coordinates .
- Derivations of Rectangular Equations in Rectangular Coordinates.
- Geometric parameters and conic sections.
- Reflective Properties of conic sections.
- Journal Article Reviews.
- Homecoming Display.
Last Update: September 20, 1997
This site was produced by the students in Calculus III, Fall 1997 at Graceland College.