Tangents to conic sections
Circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas are conic sections and have many unique properties. The properties of the tangents to conic sections prove quite interesting. Dandelin spheres are tangent to ellipses inside a cone and support the geometric definition of an ellipse. Tangent lines to para...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1607 |