This document discusses engineering curves known as ellipses. It defines a conic as a curve where the ratio of the distance from a point to a fixed focus point and a fixed directrix line remains constant. An ellipse is a conic where the eccentricity is less than 1, with the eccentricity representing the ratio of the distance from the focus to the curve and from the focus to the directrix. Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the definition of a conic in terms of focus and directrix, and show how the eccentricity determines whether the curve is an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
This document discusses engineering curves known as ellipses. It defines a conic as a curve where the ratio of the distance from a point to a fixed focus point and a fixed directrix line remains constant. An ellipse is a conic where the eccentricity is less than 1, with the eccentricity representing the ratio of the distance from the focus to the curve and from the focus to the directrix. Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the definition of a conic in terms of focus and directrix, and show how the eccentricity determines whether the curve is an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
This document discusses engineering curves known as ellipses. It defines a conic as a curve where the ratio of the distance from a point to a fixed focus point and a fixed directrix line remains constant. An ellipse is a conic where the eccentricity is less than 1, with the eccentricity representing the ratio of the distance from the focus to the curve and from the focus to the directrix. Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the definition of a conic in terms of focus and directrix, and show how the eccentricity determines whether the curve is an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
Module 1 : Introduction and geometric constructions
Lecture 7 : Engineering curves: Ellipse
Conic
Conic is defined as the locus of a point moving in a plane such that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point and a fixed straight line is always constant.
• Fixed point is called Focus
• Fixed line is called Directrix
This is illustrated in figure 2.
Figure 2. illustrates the directrices and foci of a conic curve.
. . Distance of the point from the focus
Eccentricity = —:-—-;— --— -— Distance of the point from the directnc
eg. when e=1/2, the curve is an Ellipse, when e=1, it is a parabola and when e=2, it is a hyperbola. Figure 3 shows the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
Figure 3 shows the relationship of eccentricity with different conic curves.