conics.gsp

Form 4 Additional Mathematics

Drawing conics


This is a prototype of JavaSketchpad, a World-Wide-Web component of The Geometer's Sketchpad. Copyright & copy ; 1990-1998 by Key Curriculum Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions of this work were funded by the National Science Foundation (awards DMI 9561674 & 9623018).

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Click the small red cross to clear the locus of the line.

What is the green line with repect of the locus D when C moves?

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Drag B and observe change of locus. What happens to the locus of D if B is (1) on A? (2) inside the circle? (3) outside the circle?

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Q is a variable point on a fixed circle. Let Q = (cos @ , sin @).

P is the mid-point of the line segment through Q.

What is the coordinates of P in terms of @?

What is the locus of P when Q moves?

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