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  2. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    A hyperbola is an open ... the eccentricity can be found using the formula in Conic section# ... -axis is aligned with the transverse axis brings the ...

  3. Semi-major and semi-minor axes - Wikipedia

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    The transverse axis of a hyperbola coincides with the major axis. [ 4 ] In a hyperbola, a conjugate axis or minor axis of length 2 b {\displaystyle 2b} , corresponding to the minor axis of an ellipse, can be drawn perpendicular to the transverse axis or major axis, the latter connecting the two vertices (turning points) of the hyperbola, with ...

  4. Confocal conic sections - Wikipedia

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    Considering the pencils of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas (see lead diagram) one gets from the geometrical properties of the normal and tangent at a point (the normal of an ellipse and the tangent of a hyperbola bisect the angle between the lines to the foci). Any ellipse of the pencil intersects any hyperbola orthogonally (see diagram).

  5. Conjugate hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a conjugate hyperbola to a given hyperbola shares the same asymptotes but lies in the opposite two sectors of the plane compared to the original hyperbola. A hyperbola and its conjugate may be constructed as conic sections obtained from an intersecting plane that meets tangent double cones sharing the same apex .

  6. Conjugate diameters - Wikipedia

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    Apollonius of Perga gave the following construction of conjugate diameters, given the conjugate hyperbola: "If Q be any point on a hyperbola and CE be drawn from the centre parallel to the tangent at Q to meet the conjugate hyperbola in E, then (1) the tangent at E will be parallel to CQ and (2) CQ and CE will be conjugate diameters." [2]

  7. Hyperbolic functions - Wikipedia

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    A ray through the unit hyperbola x 2 − y 2 = 1 at the point (cosh a, sinh a), where a is twice the area between the ray, the hyperbola, and the x-axis. For points on the hyperbola below the x-axis, the area is considered negative (see animated version with comparison with the trigonometric (circular) functions).

  8. Gaussian beam - Wikipedia

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    The equations below assume a beam with a circular cross-section at all values of z; this can be seen by noting that a single transverse dimension, r, appears.Beams with elliptical cross-sections, or with waists at different positions in z for the two transverse dimensions (astigmatic beams) can also be described as Gaussian beams, but with distinct values of w 0 and of the z = 0 location for ...

  9. Inverse hyperbolic functions - Wikipedia

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    A ray through the unit hyperbola = in the point (,), where is twice the area between the ray, the hyperbola, and the -axis. The earliest and most widely adopted symbols use the prefix arc-(that is: arcsinh, arccosh, arctanh, arcsech, arccsch, arccoth), by analogy with the inverse circular functions (arcsin, etc.).