Here is a picture of an ellipse with its major parts:
Here is the equation for an ellipse:
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Ellipses
Ellipses are bascially weirdly shaped circles, but in a proper definintion, it is the set of all points (x,y) the sum whose distances from two distict fixed points called the foci are always constant. An ellipses has both vertices and axes. The vertices are the points where a line through the foci would pass through on the sides of an ellipse. The chord that connects these vertices is called the major axis. The minor axis is the chord that is perpendicular to the major axis and connects through the center or midpoint which is, as the name states, at the center or midpoint of the ellipse.
Here is a picture of an ellipse with its major parts:
Here is the equation for an ellipse:
Here is a picture of an ellipse with its major parts:
Here is the equation for an ellipse:
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Thanks for defining all the parts of an ellipse. It is important that we know what each part is in order to make sure we have found the whole ellipse. Thanks for posting a picture along with the definitions it really helped me understand where each part is. Thanks for putting up both the vertical and horizontal equations for an ellipse. This is important because there is a huge difference if we use the wrong one. Thanks again!
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