ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

Jose Abad Santos Campus

Basic Education Department – Senior High School
3058 Taft Avenue Pasay City

Name: _________________________________________Date: _____________________________

Grade/ Section/ Strand: _________________________Teacher: _____________________________

I. Topic: Pre- Calculus

∙ Introduction to Pre-Calculus

II. Learning Competency: The students shall able to;

∙ Identify the standard form of the equation of ellipse with the center at the origin.
∙ Graph the parts and properties of an ellipse.

III. Concept Notes:

• Ellipse is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that the sum of its distance from two points is
constant. Its eccentricity is less than one.

Part and Properties of an ellipse

• The two fix points F1 and F2 are called the foci (plural of focus).
• The point midway between F1 and F2 is the centre of the ellipse
• The axis of symmetry passing through the foci is called principal axis.
• The line segment through foci and joining two points of the ellipse is called the major axis. The major axis
lies on the principal axis.
• The line segment through the center and perpendicular to the major axis is the minor axis. The endpoints
of the minor axis are points of the ellipse.
• The graph of an ellipse is symmetric with respect to the both major and minor axis.
• The intersection of the ellipse with the major determines the two V1 and V2 which are called vertices. •
The endpoints (B1 and B2) of the minor axis are called co- vertices of an ellipse.
• The line segment s through the foci perpendicular to the major axis and joining two points of the ellipse are
called latera recta (plural of latus rectum)
• The fixed lines (D1 and D2) referred to in the definition of an ellipse and parallel to the latera recta are
called the directrices (plural of directrix).
• The length of the major axis is always greater than the length of the minor axis.
IV. Example:
V. Activity
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1. For the given equation of ellipse ��+

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a. Center
b. Principal axis
c. Vertices
d. co- vertices
e. Foci
f. length of the major
and minor axis
g. Equations of directrices
h. Length of the latus rectum

2. Find the standard equation of the ellipse whose center at the origin, foci are F 1 (0,-6) and F2 (0, 6) and major axis is
20. Sketch the graph.