{"id":7039,"date":"2012-02-16T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:56:54","slug":"interactive-ellipse-graphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/interactive-ellipse-graphs-7039","title":{"rendered":"Interactive ellipse graphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgRt\" style=\"width:250px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/plane-analytic-geometry\/ellipse-interactive.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/02\/ellipse-interactive2.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" alt=\"interactive ellipse graphs\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just added a new page on IntMath.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/plane-analytic-geometry\/ellipse-interactive.php\">Interactive Ellipse Graphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 interactives:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The first illustrates the property of ellipses, that they are the \"locus of a point where the sum of the distances from 2 fixed points is constant\". This is usually quite a confusing statement for first timers.<\/li>\n<li>The next shows the effect on an ellipse's equation when moving its center.<\/li>\n<li>The final one illustrates what we mean by the eccentricity of an ellipse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So check it out and let me know what you think. Any suggestions for improvement?<\/p>\n<p>The link again: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/plane-analytic-geometry\/ellipse-interactive.php\">Interactive Ellipse Graphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/interactive-ellipse-graphs-7039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/02\/ellipse-interactive.png\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" alt=\"interactive ellipse graphs\" margin=\"0\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere are some graphs that help you understand basic concepts of ellipses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}