Parabola/Related Articles
< Parabola
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Parabola, or pages that link to Parabola or to this page or whose text contains "Parabola".
Parent topic
- Conic section [r]: Curve produced when intersecting a cone (more precisely, the surface of a right circular cone) with a plane. [e]
Related topics
- Ellipse [r]: Planar curve formed by the points whose distances to two given points add up to a given number. [e]
- Hyperbola [r]: Planar curve formed by the points for which the difference of the distances to two given points is a given number. [e]
- Paraboloid [r]: Surface formed by rotating a parabola around its axis. [e]
- Quadratic equation [r]: An equation of the form ax2 + bx + c = 0 where a, b and c are constants. [e]
- Electromagnetic wave [r]: A change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
- Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment [r]: One of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during December, 1990. [e]
- Coriolis force [r]: An inertial force upon a moving object that is perpendicular to its velocity as that is seen from a rotating frame of reference, and also to the axis of rotation. [e]