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    An ellipse is a conic section shaped like a flattened circle. It is defined as the set of all points where the sum of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is a constant. Ellipses have several key parts including a center, two foci, two vertices along the major axis, and two covertices along the minor axis. The orbits of planets around the sun are elliptical. Ellipses can be represented in standard form variations depending on the location of the center and orientation of the ellipse. Converting between general and standard form involves completing the square.

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    An ellipse is a conic section shaped like a flattened circle. It is defined as the set of all points where the sum of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is a constant. Ellipses have several key parts including a center, two foci, two vertices along the major axis, and two covertices along the minor axis. The orbits of planets around the sun are elliptical. Ellipses can be represented in standard form variations depending on the location of the center and orientation of the ellipse. Converting between general and standard form involves completing the square.

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    An ellipse is a conic section shaped like a flattened circle. It is defined as the set of all points where the sum of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is a constant. Ellipses have several key parts including a center, two foci, two vertices along the major axis, and two covertices along the minor axis. The orbits of planets around the sun are elliptical. Ellipses can be represented in standard form variations depending on the location of the center and orientation of the ellipse. Converting between general and standard form involves completing the square.

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    An ellipse is a conic section shaped like a flattened circle. It is defined as the set of all points where the sum of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is a constant. Ellipses have several key parts including a center, two foci, two vertices along the major axis, and two covertices along the minor axis. The orbits of planets around the sun are elliptical. Ellipses can be represented in standard form variations depending on the location of the center and orientation of the ellipse. Converting between general and standard form involves completing the square.

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    ELLIPSE

    PRE-CALCULUS-----CONIC SECTION

    RIZEL A. BONGHANOY
    Teacher II
    An ellipse is one of the conic sections. Its shape is a bounded curve which
    looks like a flattened circle. The orbits of the planets in our solar system
    around the sun happen to be elliptical in shape. Also, just like parabolas,
    ellipses have reflective properties that have been used in the construction of
    certain structures.
    Much of real-world situations can be represented by ellipse, including
    satellites, moons and comets, shapes of boats and some airplane wings, and
    orbits of planets in our solar system around the sun happen to be elliptical in
    shape. These are common in physics, astronomy, and engineering. Also, just
    like parabolas, ellipses have reflective properties that have been used in the
    construction of certain structures.
    A. DEFINITION
    An ellipse is the set of all points P in a plane in such a
    way that the sum of its
    distances from two fixed points on the same plane is
    constant. These fixed points are called foci (plural for
    focus). The constant sum is the also equal to the length of
    the major axis of the ellipse.
    An ellipse has the following parts:
    (1)Center (shown in figure 4)
     The center of the ellipse has coordinate (ℎ, 𝑘) or (0,0) if it is
    in the origin.
     The intersection between the major and minor axis.
    (2)Foci (shown in figure 4 and 7)
     Focus is singular.
     The foci are two fixed points inside the ellipse which are
    equidistance from the center and lays along the major axis.
     For any point P on the ellipse, the sum of the its distance
    from the foci is equal to the length of the major axis.

    (3)Vertices (shown in figure 4 and 5)


     The vertices are points on the ellipse, collinear with the
    center and foci.
     A vertex is the endpoint of the major axis and is 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 away
    from the center. Thus the segment from one vertex to the other
    is 2a.

    (4)Covertices (shown in figure 4 and 5)


     The endpoints of the minor axis, perpendicular to the major
    axis.
     The length of the segment from the covertices is 2b.

    (5)Latus rectum (shown in figure 6)


     The chord that passes through a focus and is perpendicular to
    the major axis.
    (1)center: origin (0,0)
    (2) foci : F1 (c,0) and F2 (c,0)
    •Each focus is c units away from the center.
    •For any point on the ellipse, the sum of its distances from the foci is 2a
    .
    (3)vertices: V1 (a,0) and V2 (a,0)
    •The vertices are points on the ellipse, collinear with the center and foci.
    •If y  0 , then x  a . Each vertex is a units away from the center.
    •The segment V1V2 is called the major axis. Its length is 2a . It divides
    the ellipse into two congruent parts.
    (4)covertices: W1 (0,b) and W2 (0,b)
    • The segment through the center, perpendicular to the major axis, is
    the minor axis. It meets the ellipse at the covertices. It divides the
    ellipse into two congruent parts.
    •If x  0 , then y  b . Each covertex is b units away from the center.
    •The minor axis W1W2 is 2b units long. Since a  b , the major axis is
    longer than the minor axis.
    There are four variations of the
    standard form of the ellipse. These
    variations are categorized first by
    the location of the center (the
    origin or not the origin), and then
    by the position (horizontal or
    vertical). Each is presented along
    with a description of how the parts
    of the equation relate to the graph.
    Interpreting these parts allows us
    to form a mental picture of the
    ellipse.
    In the standard equation, if the x-part has the
    bigger denominator, the ellipse is horizontal. If the
    y-part has the bigger denominator, the ellipse is
    vertical.
    C= the distance from the center going to the foci or focus.
    With this, we need to learn first how to write an equation of ellipse from
    general to standard form by applying the steps of completing the square.
    Your time to show it…
    Graphing of
    Ellipse

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