CONICS
This section is an overview of the CONICS Icon. To select this icon, you may highlight it and press
l or press 7.
The initial CONICS screen allows you to choose from various conic functions, including
rectangular, polar or parametric form. You may use the BN to select the equation of the
function in accordance with the type of graph you want to draw. Once you have chosen the conic
function you would like to graph, enter the coefcients of the function and then press DRAW u.
1. To view the graph of the conic: y = 2x
2
-5x -3, select the form from the Conics formula menu.
In the Conics modes, when you press y (G-Solv), although you are still graphing a parabola
like in the graphing section, notice how the vocabulary and options have changed to be conic
specic.
2. For example, you can now examine the line of symmetry for this parabola and the equation
of that line will be displayed.
You can continue to analyze different areas of this graph and the line of symmetry will still
be displayed.
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