Eccentricity of an ellipse?
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Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:29 am
by Celsion
What's the equation for finding the eccentricity of an ellipse? Also, how can you tell if a polynomial is an ellipse, circle, parabola, hyperbola, and etc? [unparseable or potentially dangerous latex formula] or something like that.
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Posted:
Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:06 am
by makashi
Looks like you want to learn about conic sections:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_sections
Definitely worth the read, as it will tell you other properties that are often queried about conic sections.