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.

conic-creation-demo

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.