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Parabolic Paradise
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This McDonald's in Las Vegas has an artistic
parabola in front of the restaurant. The classic golden arches also contain parabolas.
Not only are there parabolas in Vegas,
they're in Paris too! J'aime parabolas!
Each side of the base of the famous eiffel
tower forms a parabola!
Penguins Enjoy the thrilling parabolic caves
in Antarctica!
Parabolas are special conic functions, and can be found ALL over the world!!!!!
The equation of a parabola is...
Horizontal:
(x-h)^2=4p(y-k)
Vertical:
(y-k)^2=4p(x-h)
The History of the majestic parabola
In the 4th century BC, Menaechmus performed the earliest work on conic Functions.
Apollonius gave this conic it's
name.
This is what Bing.com
came up with for Apollonius
:)
A man named Pappus
worked with the focus-directrix
property of the parabola. He
was a stud.
Galileo figured out that
the path of the projectile
of an object is a parabola!
Woah. This is how
parabolas
occur
naturally!
See Video 2
THE END
See Video 2
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