- 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...
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Conic Hill (from
Gaelic "còinneach"
meaning moss) is a
prominent hill in Stirling, Scotland. It is on the east bank of Loch Lomond,
beside the village...
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image of a
conic section is a
conic section of the same type (ellipse, parabola,...), one gets: Any
plane section of an
elliptic cone is a
conic section...
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distances along all
other parallels are stretched.
Conic projections that are
commonly used are:
Equidistant conic,
which keeps parallels evenly spaced along...
- The
Albers equal-area
conic projection, or
Albers projection, is a
conic,
equal area map
projection that uses two
standard parallels.
Although scale and...
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Conic optimization is a
subfield of
convex optimization that
studies problems consisting of
minimizing a
convex function over the
intersection of an affine...
- A
Lambert conformal conic projection (LCC) is a
conic map
projection used for
aeronautical charts,
portions of the
State Plane Coordinate System, and...
- In geometry, a
degenerate conic is a
conic (a second-degree
plane curve,
defined by a
polynomial equation of
degree two) that
fails to be an irreducible...
- In
Euclidean geometry, a
triangle conic is a
conic in the
plane of the
reference triangle and ****ociated with it in some way. For example, the cir****circle...
- In astrodynamics, the
patched conic approximation or
patched two-body
approximation is a
method to
simplify trajectory calculations for
spacecraft in...
