Section 4. The Parabola

We have now come to the third and final type of conic section, the parabola. Notice that the algebraic equations for the ellipse and hyperbola involved both and . We will see below that the equation of a parabola will involve only one squared term.

• Definition
• Examples -- Parabolas
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
  • Example 3
  • Example 4
  • Example 5
• Exercises -- Parabolas
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Exercise 4
  • Exercise 5
  • Exercise 6