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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Parabola.
See also changes related to Parabola, or pages that link to Parabola or to this page or whose text contains "Parabola".

Parent topic

  • Conic section [r]: Curve produced when intersecting a cone (more precisely, the surface of a right circular cone) with a plane. [e]

Related topics

  • Ellipse [r]: Planar curve formed by the points whose distances to two given points add up to a given number. [e]
  • Hyperbola [r]: Planar curve formed by the points for which the difference of the distances to two given points is a given number. [e]
  • Paraboloid [r]: Surface formed by rotating a parabola around its axis. [e]
  • Quadratic equation [r]: An equation of the form ax2 + bx + c = 0 where a, b and c are constants. [e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

  • Electromagnetic wave [r]: A change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
  • Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment [r]: One of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during December, 1990. [e]
  • Coriolis force [r]: An inertial force upon a moving object that is perpendicular to its velocity as that is seen from a rotating frame of reference, and also to the axis of rotation. [e]