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13.7 Exercise 24

Avg difficulty 2.5

Show that for eccentricity equal to one in the reference for conic sections, the path is a parabola. Do this by substituting Cartesian coordinates, x and y, for the polar coordinates, r and θ\theta, and showing that it has the general form for a parabola, x=ay2+by+cx = a y^{2} + b y + c.

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