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  2. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    These properties characterize hyperbolic paraboloids and are used in one of the oldest definitions of hyperbolic paraboloids: a hyperbolic paraboloid is a surface that may be generated by a moving line that is parallel to a fixed plane and crosses two fixed skew lines.

  3. Paraboloidal coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Paraboloidal coordinates are three-dimensional orthogonal coordinates (,,) that generalize two-dimensional parabolic coordinates. They possess elliptic paraboloids as one-coordinate surfaces. As such, they should be distinguished from parabolic cylindrical coordinates and parabolic rotational coordinates , both of which are also generalizations ...

  4. List of hyperboloid structures - Wikipedia

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    This page is a list of hyperboloid structures. These were first applied in architecture by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). Shukhov built his first example as a water tower ( hyperbolic shell ) for the 1896 All-Russian Exposition .

  5. On Conoids and Spheroids - Wikipedia

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    Consisting of 32 propositions, the work explores properties of and theorems related to the solids generated by revolution of conic sections about their axes, including paraboloids, hyperboloids, and spheroids. [1] The principal result of the work is comparing the volume of any segment cut off by a plane with the volume of a cone with equal base ...

  6. Volume element - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of a volume element can be explored by considering a two-dimensional surface embedded in n-dimensional Euclidean space. Such a volume element is sometimes called an area element . Consider a subset U ⊂ R 2 {\displaystyle U\subset \mathbb {R} ^{2}} and a mapping function φ : U → R n {\displaystyle \varphi :U\to \mathbb {R ...

  7. Parabolic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The two-dimensional parabolic coordinates form the basis for two sets of three-dimensional orthogonal coordinates. The parabolic cylindrical coordinates are produced by projecting in the -direction. Rotation about the symmetry axis of the parabolae produces a set of confocal paraboloids, the coordinate system of tridimensional parabolic ...

  8. Ruled surface - Wikipedia

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    Ruled surface generated by two Bézier curves as directrices (red, green). A surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space is called a ruled surface if it is the union of a differentiable one-parameter family of lines.

  9. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...