?(a) What is the eccentricity of a conic section?(b) What can you say about the

Chapter 16, Problem 9

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(a) What is the eccentricity of a conic section?


(b) What can you say about the eccentricity if the conic section is an ellipse? A hyperbola? A parabola?


(c) Write a polar equation for a conic section with eccentricity
e and directrix x = d. What if the directrix is \(x=-d\)? \(y=d\)? \(y=-d\)?

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