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HANNIBAL DE FRANCE TUTORIAL CENTER

TOPIC : Intro to Conic Sections

LEVEL : Grade 11

A conic section, conic or a quadratic curve is a curve obtained from a

cone's surface intersecting a plane. The three types of conic section are
the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a special case
of the ellipse,(why? Because all circles are ellipsis) though it was
sometimes called as a fourth type.

General Equation

𝑨𝒙𝟐 + 𝑩𝒙𝒚 + 𝑪𝒚𝟐 + 𝑫𝒙 + 𝑬𝒚 + 𝑭 = 𝟎

Classifying Conic Sections from General Equations

Conic Section Conditions Example

ELLIPSE A = C or A ≠ C but have same 𝒙 + 𝟐𝒚𝟐 − 𝟒𝒙 − 𝟖 = 𝟎
𝟐

sign 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟒𝒚𝟐 − 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟔𝒚 − 𝟐𝟒 = 𝟎
𝟐

CIRCLE A=C 𝒙𝟐 + 𝒚𝟐 − 𝟒𝒙 − 𝟏𝟐 = 𝟎
𝟐𝒙𝟐 + 𝟐𝒚𝟐 − 𝟒𝒙 + 𝟏𝟖𝒚 = 𝟎

PARABOLA A = 0 or C= 0 but not both 𝟐𝒚𝟐 − 𝟒𝒙 − 𝟖 = 𝟎

𝟐
𝒙 − 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟔𝒚 − 𝟐𝟒 = 𝟎

HYPERBOLA A & C have diff signs 𝒙𝟐 − 𝒚𝟐 − 𝟒𝒙 − 𝟖 = 𝟎

−𝟐𝒙𝟐 + 𝟒𝒚𝟐 − 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟔𝒚 − 𝟐𝟒 = 𝟎

Activity1 : Classify each conic section.

Ellipse, Circle, Parabola Hyperbola