Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Conics- major / minor axis ( from formulas) - Transverse / conjugate axis

For ellipses, you have two axis, a major and a minor . the major axis is always the longer of the two.

For Hyperbolas, you also have two axis, a transverse axis and a conjugate axis

Transverse axis-connects verticies

*not always longer than conjugate axis

*length is alwas 2a units (a+a)

*there for length of conjugate is always 2b units (b+b)

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