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Apollonius Revisited Equidistance

Apollonius Revisited: Equidistance - Concord Academy

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-If you wish to have a hyperbola with a single branch you can do so by making sure youstart the construction with a ray through F2 and M rather than a line.-To understand why these constructions satisfy the definitions of ellipse and hyperbolastudy the diagrams below:Note: The sum of the distances PF2 and PF1 is a constant: the radius of the circle

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