Is It a Parabola?

Students will get to decide whether a stream of water in a fountain makes a parabola as defined classically: the set of points equidistant from a line and a point. To do so, students will move a line and point to try to make the corresponding parabola fit a photo of a stream of water.

 

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Resource Type
Activity
Tags
conic-section  directrix  exploration  focus  focus-and-directrix  parabola  physics  trajectory  water-fountain 
Target Group (Age)
11 – 14
Language
English (United States)
 
 
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