Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chamberlain, David.
2. Perry, Susan.
3. Amadio, John.
4. Cunsolo, Joseph.
5. Lancaster, Ron.
6. Weiner, Jack.
7. Rawson, Corky.
8. TVOntario.
9. Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Description

1. 6 videocassettes (60 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. A short historical review of this subject mentions the Greek mathematician Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.), René Descartes (1637), Georg Riemann (1854), and C.F. Gauss (around 1900). The various geometric curves formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone at various angles are defined and their equations in a Cartesian plane derived.
2. The last videocassette discusses today's applications in sound and light reflections: telescopes, headlights of automobiles, the sonic boom of the jet plane, the trajectory in the space program, etc.

Alternative title

1. Conic sections

Subject

1. Conic sections

Contents

1. cassette [1] Slicing the cone -- cassette [2] The circle -- cassette [3] The ellipse -- cassette [4] The parabola -- cassette [5] The hyperbola --cassette [6] Applications of conic sections.

Note

1. Originally produced by TVOntario, c1989.
2. "FFH3731-FFH3736"--Spines of containers.

Credits (note)

1. Producer, David Chamberlain; writers, Susan Perry, John Amadio; consultants, Joseph Cunsolo, Ron Lancaster, Jack Weiner.

System details (note)

1. VHS format.