Constructing Conics - simphysoftwares/SimPHY-docs GitHub Wiki

These tools are created to help learn the geometry and properties of conic sections.

Click this icon to create conics:

conic-tool-location

You can create parabola, ellipse, hyperbola by using different parameters. Just select any one and follow the bottom instructions.

Circles

You can see how parabola is created from two points A and B ( Note: both were created on the x-axis so both are only bound to move on it). Then an ellipse is created with one focus as B and other as C and point on it D.