You may have to download first, but the two VRML icons near the bottom of the page allow you to observe the plane intersecting the cone to form the conic. Controls are present to change the angle of the plane and your view of the intersection.

Concepts

circles, conic sections, ellipses, hyperbolas, parabolas

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Additional Tags

conic, conics, circle, conic section, ellipse, hyperbola, parabola

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

HSG-GPE.A.2 HSG-GPE.A.3