An ellipse is a plane curve that surrounds two focus points and has a constant sum of the two distances to the focal points at all places on the curve. In the graph, the A represents the minor axis of the ellipse.
Suppose that the major axis is of the length 2a units, and that minor axis is of 2b units, and let the ellipse is centered on (h,k) with major ellipse parallel to x-axis, then the equation of that ellipse would be:
[tex]\dfrac{(x-h)^2}{a^2} + \dfrac{(y-k)^2}{b^2} =1[/tex]
Coordinates of its foci would be: (h±c, k) where c² = a² - b²
If its major axis is parallel to y-axis, then,
coordinates of its foci would be: (h, k±c) where c² = a² - b² and its equation would be:
[tex]\dfrac{(x-h)^2}{b^2} + \dfrac{(y-k)^2}{a^2} =1[/tex]
An ellipse is a plane curve that surrounds two focus points and has a constant sum of the two distances to the focal points at all places on the curve. Since an ellipse has two diameter, the major and the minor diameter. Therefore, in the graph, the A represents the minor axis of the ellipse.
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