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496 Hooked on Conics<br />

Tilting the plane ever so slightly produces an ellipse.<br />

If the plane cuts parallel to the cone, we get a parabola.<br />

If we slice the cone with a vertical plane, we get a hyperbola.<br />

For a wonderful animation describing the conics as intersections of planes and cones, see Dr. Louis<br />

Talman’s Mathematics Animated Website.

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