Parabola in a sentence as a noun

Any time you mix two pure colors, you end up inside the parabola instead of on the edge.

It turned out that the graph was an upside-down parabola.

It's an ellipse, but it is so elongated that it is extremely close to a parabola.

Any regression can fit two data points, even a parabola.

I think we can "officially" use triquel or parabola linux on lemote PCs...and that's about it.

It is a convex shape, like a truncated parabola, and the pure colors are on the edge of the parabola curve.

If you just want to understand enough calculus to know why a thrown ball follows a parabola, that really isn't hard.

When i realized that a parabola could actually be the path of a cannon ball, it changed my entire outlook on math.

Once we start asking for more than, say, five more significant digits, we are way up on a parabola in the amount of data we need.

There are an infinite number of parabolas you can draw through two points, just as there are an infinite number of squiggles you could draw through the digital sample points.

A "small" section of a hyperbola is very similar to a small section of a circle that is very similar to a small section of a parabola.

It'll approximate a parabola if you throw at exactly the escape velocity, and a hyperbola if you throw even harder than that.

It's only when you look at the uninterrupted path that the difference between the parabola approximation and the ellipse becomes apparent.

They had plotted the original curve when the main cable was first put up, and they could measure the small differences as the bridge was being suspended from it, as the curve turned into a parabola.

The best case would be a tracking parabola that follows your device through space beaming concentrated ultrasound at it, and even then the power transfer is going to be a handful of milliwatts.

"Arecibo was broadcasting with enough power to boil birds that flew over it"Birds that flew over the parabola of the antenna or birds that flew between the focal point and the parabola?

I can tell you whether your parabola is convex or concave, where the focii are and what the lengths of the minor and major axis of your ellipse will be....tons and tons of repititive trivia, force-fed through pattern matching & gamification.

Here is an example: d^2 x ----- = -g dt^2 Solving this gives us the parabola we are all familiar with, when an object falls under constant acceleration: x = -1/2 g t^2 + v_0 t x + x_0 This is a second order differential equation, but it is too trivial an example.

If the coaster is going fast enough, then the radius of curvature of the parabola at that location in the coaster's trajectory is greater than that of the track, in which case the track gets to apply additional centripetal force and turn the coaster -more- than it 'wants' to.

Incidentally, the "rotated parabola" representation of quadratic bezier curves can be extremely useful when writing highly optimized code, as it lends itself to closed form solutions in some situations where the parametric representation does not.

If the entire mass of the moon was concentrated in a single point at its centre, and the projectile could pass through the moon, then the projectile would follow a parabola-like path and go down below the moon's surface, until it started curving around the other side of the centre and back up to its starting point.

Parabola definitions

noun

a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve