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Paula's Ellipse

Paula's Ellipse
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2019-04-01 07:48
Coordinate GeometryGeometric Construction
This example demonstrates the properties of an ellipse and its tangent. It involves fundamental concepts of the ellipse such as foci, eccentricity, and tangents. Using GeoGebra commands like Ellipse, Point, Tangent, and Eccentricity, dynamic exploration of the geometric properties of the ellipse is possible. Suitable for high school mathematics education and learning.

GeoGebra Commands & Parameters

  1. Ellipse(A, B, C) → c
  2. Point(c) → D
  3. Tangent(D, c) → f,
  4. Eccentricity(c) → a
  5. OrthogonalLine(A, f) → g
  6. OrthogonalLine(B, f) → h
  7. Intersect(f, g) → E
  8. Segment(E, A) → i
  9. Intersect(f, h) → F
  10. Segment(F, B) → j
  11. Segment(A, D) → k
  12. Segment(B, D) → l