Conic Sections: Equations and Graphs

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This Demonstration will help you to better understand ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas. You can drag the red center to move the conic around the grid. Hold the mouse over the center to see its coordinates.

Contributed by: Kelly Deckelman, Kathleen Feltz, Jenn Mount (March 2011)
Based on a program by: Abby Brown
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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