Conics (1 Viewer)

[Valupatitta]

can some1 please explain in baby language what 'eccentricity' means?

 

[study-freak]

The ratio of the distance from any point(say P) on a conic (ellipse, hyperbola, circle, parabola) to the foci(S) to the perpendicular distance from the point(P) to the directrices(M).
PS/PM=e.

 

[Affinity]

measure of how much the curve differs from a circle.

 

[abc123doremi]

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