Monthly Archives: August 2009
Tangents & Normals II
Using cartesian coordinates to solve parabola questions.
lesson notes: 06 tangents & normals II
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Tangents & Normals I
Finding tangents and normals using the parametric representation.
lesson notes: 05 tangents & normals I
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Chords of a Parabola
Using the parametric coordinates to generalise the equation of a chord of the parabola.
lesson notes: 04 chords of a parabola
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Parametric Coordinates
The parametric form of a curve uses two equations to describe a curve and one number to identify a point, which is the opposite of what we normally see when using cartesian form.
lesson notes: 03 parametric coordinates
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