Find the polar equation of the conic section. (With the origin as the pole, and the positive \(x\)-axis as the polar axis.) Identify and sketch the graph of the conic section defined by ...

Identify and sketch the graph of the conic section defined by \begin{equation*} r=\frac{1}{2-4\cos \theta } \end{equation*} in the \(x\text{,}\) \(y\text{,}\) plane without converting it to cartesian ...

His object in this volume is a highly laudable one; from more than one quarter has recently come the complaint that the subject of geometrical conic sections is in an unsatisfactory state.