Right conoid
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A right conoid as a ruled surface.
In geometry, a right conoid is a ruled surface generated by a family of straight lines that all intersect perpendicularly to a fixed straight line, called the axis of the right conoid.
Using a Cartesian coordinate system in three-dimensional space, if we take the z-axis to be the axis of a right conoid, then the right conoid can be represented by the parametric equations:
where h(u) is some function for representing the height of the moving line.
Examples
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Generation of a typical right conoid
A typical example of right conoids is given by the parametric equations
The image on the right shows how the coplanar lines generate the right conoid.
Other right conoids include:
- Helicoid:
- Whitney umbrella:
- Wallis’s conical edge:
- Plücker’s conoid:
- hyperbolic paraboloid: (with x-axis and y-axis as its axes).
See also
External links
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001) [1994], "Conoid", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- Right Conoid from MathWorld.
- Plücker's conoid from MathWorld
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