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Conic Sections

The document contains a series of mathematical problems related to conic sections, including ellipses and parabolas, with specific scenarios such as a racecourse, javelin throw, railway bridge, satellite dish, and a farmer's field. Each problem requires finding properties like equations, foci, lengths of axes, and eccentricities of the curves involved. The document serves as an educational exercise for understanding the applications of conic sections in real-world contexts.

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Conic Sections

The document contains a series of mathematical problems related to conic sections, including ellipses and parabolas, with specific scenarios such as a racecourse, javelin throw, railway bridge, satellite dish, and a farmer's field. Each problem requires finding properties like equations, foci, lengths of axes, and eccentricities of the curves involved. The document serves as an educational exercise for understanding the applications of conic sections in real-world contexts.

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VELAMMAL VIDHYASHRAM SURAPET

CONIC SECTIONS
1. Arun is running in a racecourse note that the sum of the distances from the two flag posts from him
is always 10 m and the distance between the flag posts is 8 m.
(i). Path traced by Arun represents which type of curve. Find the length of major axis?
(ii). Find the equation of the curve traced by Arun?
(iii). Find the eccentricity of path traced by Arun?
(iv). Find the length of latus rectum for the path traced by Arun.
2. Indian track and field athlete Neeraj Chopra, who competes in the Javelin throw, won a gold medal
at Tokyo Olympics. He is the first track and field athlete to win a gold medal for India at the
Olympics.

(i). Name the shape of path followed by a javelin. If equation of such a curve is given by x2 = - 16y,
then find the coordinates of foci,
(ii). Find the equation of directrix and length of latus rectum of parabola x2 = - 16y.
(iii). Find the equation of parabola with Vertex (0,0), passing through (5,2) and symmetric with
respect to y - axis and also find equation of directrix.
(iv). Find the equation of the parabola with focus (2, 0) and directrix x = - 2 and also length of latus
rectum.
3. The girder of a railway bridge is a parabola with its vertex at the highest point, 10 m above the
ends. Its span is 100 m.

(i). Find the coordinates of the focus of the parabola.


(ii). Find the equation of girder of bridge and find the length of latus rectum of girder of bridge.
(iii). Find the height of the bridge at 20m from the mid - point.
(iv). Find the radius of circle with centre at focus of the parabola and passes through the vertex of
parabola.
4. A satellite dish has a shape called a paraboloid, where each cross section is parabola. Since radio
signals (parallel to axis) will bounce off the surface of the dish to the focus, the receiver should be
placed at the focus. The dish is 12 ft across, and 4.5 ft deep at the vertex.

(i). Name the type of curve given in the above paragraph and find the equation of curve?
(ii). Find the equation of parabola whose vertex is (3, 4) and focus is (5, 4).
(iii). Find the equation of parabola Vertex (0, 0) passing through (2, 3) and axis is along x - axis. and
also find the length of latus rectum.
(iv). Find focus, length of latus rectum and equation of directrix of the parabola x2 = 8y.
5. A farmer wishes to install 2 hand pumps in his field for watering. The farmer moves in the field
while watering in such a way that the sum of distances between the farmer and each handpump is
always 26m. Also, the distance between the hand pumps is 10 m.

(i) Name the curve traced by farmer and hence find the foci of curve.
(ii) Find the equation of curve traced by farmer.
(iii) Find the length of major axis, minor axis and eccentricity of curve along which farmer moves.
(iv) Find the length of latus rectum.

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