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Analytic Geometry

Civil Engineering

Introduction to Analytic Geometry

Coordinate systems, distance formula, midpoint formula, slope, angle between lines, symmetry, and area of polygons.

The Straight Line

Equations of lines, slopes, intercepts, distances, and angles between lines.

The Circle

Equations of circles, finding center and radius, tangent lines, and degenerate cases.

The Parabola

Equations of parabolas, vertex, focus, directrix, and applications.

The Ellipse

Equations of ellipses, finding foci, vertices, eccentricity, and area.

The Hyperbola

Equations of hyperbolas, finding foci, vertices, transverse axis, asymptotes, and eccentricity.

Polar Coordinates

Polar coordinate system, conversion between rectangular and polar, and graphing polar curves.

Translation and Rotation of Axes

Transformation of coordinates through translation and rotation of the axes, and eliminating the xy-term in conic sections.

Parametric Equations

Defining curves using an independent parameter, converting to rectangular form, and applications to conic sections.

Solid Geometry

Three-dimensional coordinate systems, distance, direction cosines, equations of lines and planes in space.

Quadric Surfaces

Understanding 3D surfaces including spheres, ellipsoids, paraboloids, and hyperboloids.

Tangents and Normals to Conic Sections

Equations of tangent and normal lines to circles, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas.

Vector Analytic Geometry

Introduction to vectors, dot product, cross product, and their applications in analytic geometry.

Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates

Advanced 3D coordinate systems and their relationship with rectangular coordinates.

Special Plane Curves

Analysis of advanced planar curves including cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, and lemniscates.