Reflecting on Conics
- Synopsis
- Looks at the world of conics and their reflection properties. There are three conics: the ellipse, the parabloa and the hyperbola. Conics have very real properties that are useful to people as diverse as gardeners and astronomers. The viewer is taken on a journey from the earth to the stars to investigate the world of conics and their reflective properties. For Examples, when the Hubble space telescope was foudn to be shortsighted, it was the parabolic mirror that corrected the problem.
- Series
- Introduction to Pure Mathematics, Course M203
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.
- Year of production
- 1997
- Availability
- Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p) - Subjects
- Mathematics
- Keywords
- conics; pure mathematics
Credits
- Producer
- Anne-Marie Gallen
- Cast
Joan Walker
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Open University Worldwide
- Web
- http://www.ouw.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 1908 274066
- Address
- Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA - Notes
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