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Sections: Introduction, Finding information from the equation, Finding the equation from information, Word Problems. An ellipse, informally, is an oval or a squished circle. In primitive geometrical terms, an ellipse is the figure you can draw in the sand by the following process: Push two sticks into the sand. Take a piece of string and form a loop that is big enough to go around the two sticks and still have some slack.
A tangent is a line that just touches a curve at one point, without cutting across it. Here is a tangent to an ellipse: Here is a cool thing: the tangent line has equal angles with the two lines going to each focus! Try bringing the two focus points together (so the ellipse is a circle) ... what do you notice? Section of a Cone. You can also get an ellipse when you slice through a cone (but not too steep a slice, or you get a parabola or hyperbola). In fact the ellipse is a conic section (a section of a cone) with an eccentricity between 0 and 1. Equation By placing an ellipse on an x-y graph (with its major axis on the x-axis and minor axis on the y-axis), the equation of the curve is: