On conics and their tangents
We present, in a way quite accessible to undergraduate and graduate students, some basic and important facts about conics: parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. For each conic, we start by its definition, then consider tangent line and obtain an elementary proof of the reflexion property. We study inters...
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| Language: | English |
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Ptolemy Scientific Research Press
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://pisrt.org/psr-press/journals/oms-vol-4-2020/on-conics-and-their-tangents/ |