Conic Sections
for Macintosh
Conic Sections is a collection of interactive mathematical visualizations for exploring circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas. It builds them from explicit equations, geometric constructions and parametric equations in rectangular and polar coordinates.
Download Conic Sections on the Mac App Store.
Download the Conic Sections Graphing Calculator documents to use with Graphing Calculator VIewer.
Table of contents
- Conic section: Circle
- Conic section: Ellipse
- Conic section: Hyperbola
- Conic section: Parabola
- Equation for a circle
- Equation for a hyperbola
- Equation for a parabola
- Equation for an ellipse
- General matrix form
- General polar form
- General quadratic form
- Geometric construction: Circle
- Geometric construction: Ellipse
- Geometric construction: Hyperbola
- Geometric construction: Parabola
- Parametric equation for a circle
- Parametric equation for a parabola
- Parametric equation for an ellipse
- Parametric equation for a hyperbola
- Another parametric equation for a hyperbola
- Polar equation for a circle
- Polar equation for a parabola
- Polar equation for an ellipse
- Polar equation for a hyperbola
- Rectangular hyperbola
- Simple examples of all the conics
