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Lecture 7: Engineering Curves: Ellipse

An ellipse is an engineering curve that is formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone. Conic curves like ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas are obtained when a plane cuts through a cone at different angles. Ellipses are important in fields like aerodynamics and engineering because they are always smooth without any sharp changes in curvature.

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Lecture 7: Engineering Curves: Ellipse

An ellipse is an engineering curve that is formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone. Conic curves like ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas are obtained when a plane cuts through a cone at different angles. Ellipses are important in fields like aerodynamics and engineering because they are always smooth without any sharp changes in curvature.

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Module 1 : Introduction and geometric constructions

Lecture 7 : Engineering curves: Ellipse

Conic curves (conics)


Curves formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone. e.g. Parabola, hyperbola
and ellipse. Right circular cone is a cone that has a circular base and the axis is inclined at 900 to
the base and passes through the center of the base.Conic sections are always "smooth". More
precisely, they never contain any inflection points. This is important for many applications, such as
aerodynamics, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, etc.Figure 1. Shows a right cone and the
various conic curves that can be obtained from a cone by sectioning the cone at various conditions.

Figure 1. Shows a right cone and the various conic curves that can be obtained from a cone by
sectioning the cone at various conditions.

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