Conic sections: Intro to ellipse발음듣기
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In the last video, we learned a little bit about the circle.발음듣기
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And the circle is really just a special case of an ellipse.발음듣기
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It's a special case because in a circle you're always an equal distance away from the center of the circle, while in an ellipse, the distance from the center of the circle is always changing.발음듣기
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You know what an ellipse looks like.발음듣기
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Well, I showed you that in the first video.발음듣기
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It looks something like that.발음듣기
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What I mean is that the radius or the distance from the center is always changing.발음듣기
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Let me say this is centered at the origin.발음듣기
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So that's the origin right there.발음듣기
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You see here, we're really, if we're on this point on the ellipse, we're really close to the origin.발음듣기
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This is actually the closest we'll ever get, just as close as well get down here.발음듣기
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And when we're out here we're really far away from the origin and that's about as far as we're going to get right there.발음듣기
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So a circle is a special case of this, because in a circle's case, the furthest we get from the origin is the same distance as the closest we get, or, in other words, we are always the exact same distance away from the origin.발음듣기
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Well, with that said, let's actually go a little bit into the math.발음듣기
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So the general or the standard form for an ellipse centered at the origin is x squared over a squared plus y squared over b squared is equal to 1.발음듣기
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Where a and b are just any two numbers.발음듣기
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I could have written this as c squared and d squared.발음듣기
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I mean, they're just place holders.발음듣기
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Just to give you an idea of what this means, if this was our ellipse in question right now, a is the length of the radius in the x-direction.발음듣기
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Remember, we're going to have a squared down here.발음듣기
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So if you took the square root of whatever is in the denominator, a is the x-radius.발음듣기
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So this distance in our little chart right here, in our little graph here, that distance is a, or that this point right here, since we're centered at the origin, will be the point x is equal to a y is equal to 0.발음듣기
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And of course this point right here this will be a, so this would be the point minus a comma 0.발음듣기
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And then the radius in the y-direction would be this radius right here and is b.발음듣기
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So this point would be x is equal to 0, y is equal to b.발음듣기
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Likewise this point right here would be x is equal to 0, y is equal to minus b.발음듣기
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And the way I drew this, we have kind of a short and fat ellipse you can also have kind of a tall and skinny ellipse.발음듣기
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But in the short and fat ellipse, the direction that you're short in that's called your minor axis.발음듣기
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And so b, I always forget the exact terminology, but b you can call it your semi or the length of your semi-minor axis.발음듣기
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And where did that word come from?발음듣기
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Well if this whole thing is your minor axis or maybe you could call your minor diameter if this whole thing is your minor diameter it's called minor, because it's the shortest of all of the diameters of this ellipse.발음듣기
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And then the semi is half of that. b is the length of the semi-minor axis.발음듣기
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That's b in this example, just because as I drew this ellipse it just happens to be that b is smaller then a.발음듣기
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If b was larger than a, I would have a tall and skinny ellipse.발음듣기
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Let me actually draw one.발음듣기
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It could have been like this.발음듣기
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I could have an ellipse that looks something like that.발음듣기
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In which case, all of a sudden b would be the semi-major axis, because b would be greater than a.발음듣기
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That this would be taller than it is wide.발음듣기
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But let me not confuse the graph too much.발음듣기
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And in this case, a is the length of - I think you've guessed it - a is the length of the semi-major axis or you can even call it the length of the major radius.발음듣기
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I think that makes more sense.발음듣기
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And you can call this the minor radius.발음듣기
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So let's just do an example.발음듣기
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And I think when I've done an example with actual numbers, it'll make it all a little bit clearer.발음듣기
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So let's say I were to show up at your door with the following: If I were to say x squared over 9 plus y squared over 25 is equal to 1.발음듣기
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So what is your radius in the x-direction?발음듣기
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This is your radius in the x-direction squared.발음듣기
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So your radius in the x-direction if we just map it, we would say that a is equal to 3.발음듣기
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Because this is a squared.발음듣기
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And if we were just map it we'd say this is b squared than this tells us that b is equal to 5.발음듣기
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So if we wanted to graph this, and once again this is centered at the origin.발음듣기
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Let me draw the ellipse first.발음듣기
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So, first of all, we have our radius in the y-direction is larger than our radius in the x-direction.발음듣기
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The ellipse is going to be taller and skinnier.발음듣기
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It's going to look something like that.발음듣기
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Draw some axes, so that could be your x-axis, your y-axis.발음듣기
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This is your radius in the y-direction.발음듣기
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So this distance right here is going to be 5, and so will this distance.발음듣기
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And this is your radius in the x-direction.발음듣기
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So this will be 3, and this will be 3.발음듣기
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You have now plotted this ellipse.발음듣기
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Nothing too fancy about it.발음듣기
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And actually just to kind of hit the point home that the circle is a special case of an ellipse.발음듣기
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We learned in the last video that the equation of a circle is x squared and a circle centered at the origin. x squared plus y squared is equal to r squared.발음듣기
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So if we were to divide both sides of this by r squared, we would get - and this is just little algebraic manipulation - x squared over r squared plus y squared over r squared is equal to 1.발음듣기
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Now in this case, your a is r and so is your b.발음듣기
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So your semi-minor axis is r and so is your semi-major axis of r.발음듣기
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Or, in other words, this distance is the same as that distance, and so it will neither be short and fat nor tall and skinny.발음듣기
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It'll be perfectly round.발음듣기
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And so that's why the circle is a special case of an ellipse.발음듣기
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So let me give you a slightly - It'll look a lot more complicated, and this is something you might see on exam.발음듣기
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But I just want to show you that this is just a shifting.발음듣기
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Let's say we wanted to shift this ellipse.발음듣기
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Let's say we wanted to shift it to the right by 5.발음듣기
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So instead of the origin being at x is equal to 0, the origin will now be at x is equal 5.발음듣기
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So a way to think about that is what does this term have to be so that at 5 this term ends up being 0.발음듣기
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Well I'll actually draw it for you, because I think that might be confusing.발음듣기
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So if we shift that over the right by 5, the new equation of this ellipse will be x minus 5 squared over 9 plus y squared over 25 is equal to 1.발음듣기
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So if I were to just draw this ellipse right now, it would look like this.발음듣기
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I want to make it look fairly similar to the ellipse I had before.발음듣기
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It would look just like that.발음듣기
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Just shifted it over by five.발음듣기
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And the intuition we learned a little bit in the circle video where I said, oh well, you know, if you have x minus something that means that the new origin is now at positive 5.발음듣기
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And you could memorize that.발음듣기
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You could always say, oh, if I have a minus here, that the origin is at the negative of whatever this number is, so it would be a positive five.발음듣기
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You know, if you had a positive it would be the opposite that.발음듣기
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But the way to really think about it is now if you go to x is equal to 5, when x is equal to 5, this whole term, x minus 5, will behave just like this x term will here.발음듣기
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When x is equal to 5 this term is 0, just like when x was 0 here.발음듣기
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So when x is equal to 5, this term is 0, and then y squared over 25 is equal 1, so y has to be equal five.발음듣기
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Just like over here when x is equal is 0, y squared over 25 had to be equal to 1, y is equal to either positive or minus 5.발음듣기
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And I really want to give you that intuition.발음듣기
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And then, let's say we wanted to shift this equation down by two.발음듣기
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So our new ellipse looks something like this.발음듣기
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A lot of times you learned this in conic sections.발음듣기
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But this is true any function.발음듣기
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When you shift things, you shift it this way.발음듣기
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If you shift this graph to the right by five, you replace all of the x's with x minus 5.발음듣기
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And if you were to shift it down by two, you would replace all the y's with y plus 2.발음듣기
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So let me draw our new ellipse first, just to show you what I'm doing.발음듣기
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So our new ellipse is going to look something like that.발음듣기
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I'm shifting the yellow ellipse down by two.발음듣기
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So this equation, if I shift it down, well, the x is still where it was before. x minus 5 squared over 9 plus y plus 2 squared over 25 is equal to 1.발음듣기
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And once again, the reason I know this is because now when y is minus 2, this whole term is 0.발음듣기
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0 when y equals minus 2.발음듣기
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And when this term is 0, it behaves the same way as when this term was 0.발음듣기
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So when y is equal to minus 2, you get the same behavior, you're at the same point in the curve, right here actually, as you are when y equaled 0 in this one, so here.발음듣기
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So it's not the same point.발음듣기
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You can kind of view it as the same part of the ellipse.발음듣기
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You're at kind of the maximum width point on the ellipse here and here when y is equal to 2, and you were here at y equal to 0 - sorry, when y equals minus 2.발음듣기
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And that's because when you put y equals minus 2 here this whole term is 0.발음듣기
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Just like when y was 0 here.발음듣기
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I don't want to make it too confusing.발음듣기
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But just to kind of wrap it all up, sometimes you might see something like graph the following: y minus 1 squared over 4 plus x plus 2 squared over 9 is equal to 1.발음듣기
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And so the first thing you could say is OK this is just like the standard ellipse y squared over 4 plus x squared over 9 is equal to one.발음듣기
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It's just like this, but it's shifted over.발음듣기
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This ones origin is 0,0, while this ones origin would be what?발음듣기
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It would be the point x is minus 2 and y is 1.발음듣기
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So if you were to graph this, your radius in your y-direction is 2.발음듣기
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2 squared is equal to 4.발음듣기
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Your radius in your x-direction is 3.발음듣기
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3 squared is equal to 9.발음듣기
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So your x-radius is actually larger than your y-radius.발음듣기
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So, it's going to be a little bit of a fat ellipse.발음듣기
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Actually, let me draw the axes first.발음듣기
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Let me draw it like this.발음듣기
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That's my vertical axis, this is my x-axis.발음듣기
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And so my center is now at minus 2, 1.발음듣기
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That's minus 2, and I go up one.발음듣기
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That's the center of my ellipse.발음듣기
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And now in the x-direction, this is the x term, my x-radius is 3.발음듣기
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So the ellipse will go three - in that direction.발음듣기
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This is it's widest point will be 3 in that direction.발음듣기
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And then in the y-direction, it'll go 2, so it'll go up 1, 2 so that's there and then 1, 2 and it's there.발음듣기
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So if I were to draw that ellipse it would look something like this through my best shot.발음듣기
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A little bit fatter than it is tall, and that's because your x-radius is larger than your y-radius.발음듣기
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This distance right here is 3, this distance right here is 3, this distance right here is 2, this distance right here is 2.발음듣기
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You could figure out what these points are.발음듣기
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I won't do all of them right now just for the sake of time.발음듣기
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But this right here is the point minus 2, 1.발음듣기
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So if you go three more than that - so if you add 3 to the x-direction this is the point 1 comma 1.발음듣기
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If you would take three away from the x-direction, this would be minus 5 comma 1.발음듣기
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And you could figure out the other points.발음듣기
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That might be good exercise for you.발음듣기
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Anyway that's a little bit on ellipses.발음듣기
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In future videos we'll do really hairy problems where you have to simplify it into this form so that we know that it definitely is an ellipse.발음듣기
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