INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONIC SECTIONS

Instructions: First of all you have to take the template and cut around the edges. Use the glue to create five cones by folding properly until you get the correct shape. Once you have made the cones, use the scissors to cut in the planes as shown in the pictures below. Afterwards try to describe to your partners in groups of three/four what kind of sections you have obtained and what you know about them and where they appear in real life. Circle -

Ellipse

Hyperbola -

Parabola

KEY WORDS
Conic Sections A section is the surface or outline of that surface formed by cutting a solid figure with a ________. If the solid figure is a cone, the resulting curve is called a conic section. The diagram on the right shows a cone formed by rotating a _________ line around a vertical _______. Four planes are shown, cutting through the cone at various _________, producing the _________ shown in the following diagram. The intersection of each plane with the cone forms a conic section. The kind and _______ of the conic section is determined by the angle of intersection of the plane, and the axis of the cone. Angled view of a cone, with conic sections produced by cutting the cone at different angles. Cutting at ________ angles to the axis produces a ________. Cutting at less than a right angle to the axis, but more than the angle made by the side of the cone, produces an __________. Cutting ___________ to a side of the cone produces a ___________. Cutting more nearly parallel to the axis than to the side produces a ____________ . Where the axis cuts each section is a focus of that section.

Fill the gaps using the words given:

section axis diagonal parabola parallel plane ellipse right hyperbola angles perpendicular circle shape curves

MATCH DEFINITIONS
The Four Kinds of Conic Sections

When the plane cuts the cone at right angles to its axis, a circle is formed.

When the plane cuts the cone parallel to the side of the cone, parabola is formed.

When the plane cuts the cone at an angle between a perpendicular to the axis (which would produce a circle), and an angle parallel to the side of the cone (which would produce a parabola), the curve formed is an ellipse.

When the plane cuts the cone at an angle closer to the axis than the side of the cone, a hyperbola is formed.

TERMS
Axis
/k.ss/ -

The line over which a parabola is symmetric.

Section /sek.n/ - The surface or outline of that surface formed by cutting a solid figure with a plane. Parallel /pr..lel/ - If two or more lines, streets, etc. are parallel, the distance between them is the same all along their length Perpendicular /p.pndk.j.lr/ - at an angle of 90 to a horizontal line or surface Circle /s.kl/ - The set of all points equidistant from a given fixed point. Conic - The intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. Ellipse /lps/ - The set of all points such that the sum of the distances from the point to each of two fixed points is constant. Hyperbola /hap.bl./ - The set of all points such that the difference of the distances between each of two fixed points and any point on the hyperbola is constant. Parabola /prb.l./ - The set of all points such that the distance between a point on the parabola and a fixed line is the same as the distance between a point on the parabola and a fixed point.