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单词 SimilitudeOfParabolas
释义

similitude of parabolas


Two parabolasPlanetmathPlanetmath need not be congruent, but they are always similarMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath.  Without the definition of parabola by focus and directrix, the fact turns out of the simplest equation  y=ax2  of parabola.

Let us take two parabolas

y=ax2andy=bx2

which have the origin as common vertex and the y-axis as common axis.  Cut the parabolas with the line  y=mx  through the vertex.  The first parabola gives

ax2=mx,

whence the abscissaMathworldPlanetmath of the other point of intersection is ma; the corresponding ordinate is thusm2a.  So, this point has the position vector

u=(mam2a)=ma(1m)

Similarly, the cutting point of the line and the second parabola has the position vector

v=(mbm2b)=mb(1m)

Accordingly, those position vectors have the http://planetmath.org/node/848linear depencence

au=bv

for all values of the slope m of the cutting line.  This means that both parabolas are homotheticMathworldPlanetmath with respect to the origin and therefore also similar.

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