Thursday, March 20, 2014

Rotation of Conics

When you have Bxy or another constant with xy in an equation, you have to change it to the form of 
. To do this, you must use the following equations: 
. The steps to change the equation includes first finding the angle. Then in step 2, you find the new x and y. Then, you plug it into the original equation. Lastly, you graph the rotated conic. These steps may be long and uses alot of hardcore algebra skills. Don't make a mistake! Here is an example of one changed equation according to the way it was rotated. 

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for putting a single picture for the equation and how there is a Bxy in the rotation of the conics. How the objective of rotation of conics is to get rid of the Bxy. This was very helpful and makes me understand the concept better. Thanks for an example problem it really helps that you put the steps as well. This helped a lot thanks.

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