By Journalist 2nd Class Paul Cage, San Diego Public Affairs Center. CAMP PATRIOT, Kuwait (NNS) -- Naval Coastal Warfare Squadron (NCWRON) 33 from Naval Coastal Warfare Group (NCWGRU) 1 deployed to Kuwait April 14 to relieve NCWRON 25 of NCWGRU 2, which is scheduled to return to Norfolk later this month.
ellipse [(i-lips)] In geometry, a curve traced out by a point that is required to move so that the sum of its distances from two fixed points (called foci) remains constant. If the foci are identical with each other, the ellipse is a circle; if the two foci are distinct from each other, the ellipse looks like a squashed or elongated circle. Note: The orbits of the planets and of many comets are ellipses.
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: