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Plane Sections of Surfaces
This Demonstration shows the intersections of planes perpendicular to the axes with plots of the quadratic form
, which are paraboloids, hyperbolic paraboloids, ellipsoids, cones, or hyperboloids of one or two sheets.
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Germán Alvarado Jiménez
(University Santo Tomás of Bogotá-Colombia)
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Contributed by:
Germán Alvarado Jiménez
(University Santo Tomás of Bogotá-Colombia)
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