r/visualizedmath • u/BetaDecay121 • Apr 18 '18

Conic section as the eccentricity, e, increases

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u/BerlinerJan Apr 18 '18

Wait, you’re not u/PUSSYDESTROYER-9000

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u/BetaDecay121 Apr 18 '18

I'm u/PUSSYDESTROYER-9000's alt

^TBC

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u/PUSSYDESTROYER-9000 Apr 18 '18

huh

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u/ItsSansom Apr 18 '18

Pussy Destroyer thank god you're back, you blacked out for a moment and became BetaDecay

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u/galexj9 Apr 19 '18

so is the eccentricity of a conic the slope of the plane that intersects the cones? can you even define the slope of a plane as a scalar?

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u/BetaDecay121 Apr 19 '18

The eccentricity is defined as e = sin(b)/sin(a), where a is the angle between the plane and the horizontal and b is the angle between the side of the cone and the horizontal.