Conic Hill (from Gaelic "còinneach" meaning moss) is a prominent hill in Stirling, Scotland. It is on the east bank of Loch Lomond, beside the village...
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In geometry, the conic constant (or Schwarzschild constant, after Karl Schwarzschild) is a quantity describing conic sections, and is represented by the...
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Scottish Highlands (category Mountains and hills of Scotland)
Cape Wrath Carrick Castle Castle Stalker Castle Tioram Chanonry Point Conic Hill Culloden Moor Dunadd Duart Castle Durness Eilean Donan Fingal's Cave (Staffa)...
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reaching the first major summit of the route, the 361-metre (1,184 ft) Conic Hill , a site of special scientific interest lying on the Highland Boundary...
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View along the Highland Boundary Fault from Conic Hill – the topographic ridge is mainly due to the presence of Devonian age conglomerates on the southwestern...
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Inchmurrin, Creinch, Torrinch and Inchcailloch and over the ridge of Conic Hill. To the south lie green fields and cultivated land; to the north, mountains...
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Map projection (redirect from Conic projection)
distances along all other parallels are stretched. Conic projections that are commonly used are: Equidistant conic, which keeps parallels evenly spaced along...
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Cone (redirect from Conic solid)
image of a conic section is a conic section of the same type (ellipse, parabola,...), one gets: Any plane section of an elliptic cone is a conic section...
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well as nearby Inchcailloch Island. Balmaha sits at the westerly foot of Conic Hill, and is roughly 30 kilometres (20 miles) along the West Highland Way if...
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Inchmurrin, Creinch, Torrinch and Inchcailloch and over the ridge of Conic Hill. To the south lie green fields and cultivated land; to the north, mountains...
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Eccentricity (mathematics) (category Conic sections)
conic section is a non-negative real number that uniquely characterizes its shape. One can think of the eccentricity as a measure of how much a conic...
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Pole and polar (section General conic sections)
the conic section. If a point P lies on its own polar line, then P is on the conic section. Each line has, with respect to a non-degenerated conic section...
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SSSI. Igneous GCRs include Balmaha & Arrochymore Point (as Conic Hill SSSI) and Garabal Hill. Tyndrum Main Mine and Crom Allt have been designated for...
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Hyperbola (category Conic sections)
hyperbola is one of the three kinds of conic section, formed by the intersection of a plane and a double cone. (The other conic sections are the parabola and the...
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Nose cone design (section Conic)
(described below) are often much more difficult to create. The sides of a conic profile are straight lines, so the diameter equation is simply: y = x R...
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List of Marilyns in the British Isles (redirect from Marilyn (Hill))
This is a list of Marilyn hills and mountains in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and surrounding islands and sea stacks. Marilyns are defined...
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surface consisting of a non-degenerate conic section in a plane π and all the lines of R3 through that conic that are normal to π). Elliptic cones are...
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Such polynomials are fundamental to the study of conic sections, as the implicit equation of a conic section is obtained by equating to zero a quadratic...
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The term derives its name from the parameters of conic sections, as every Kepler orbit is a conic section. It is normally used for the isolated two-body...
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Cambusurich Wood Carbeth Loch Coille Chriche Coille Coire Chuilc Collymoon Moss Conic Hill Craigallian Marshes Craigrostan Woods Crom Allt de-notified (confirmed)...
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instance, with respect to a conic (a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola), lines can be: tangent lines, which touch the conic at a single point; secant...
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Analytic geometry (section Conic sections)
points on a line that were in a ratio to the others. Apollonius in the Conics further developed a method that is so similar to analytic geometry that...
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Anthropology, suffragist Alfred Stillé (1813–1900), expelled from Yale for Conic Sections Rebellion, received medical degree from University of Pennsylvania...
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Pyrgulopsis bryantwalkeri (redirect from Cortez Hills pebblesnail)
has a height of 1.5–3.2 millimetres (0.059–0.126 in) and globose to ovate-conic shell. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament...
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Convex optimization (section Conic form)
i=1,\dots ,p,\end{aligned}}} Every convex program can be presented in a conic form, which means minimizing a linear objective over the intersection of...
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Orbital mechanics (section Conic orbits)
carries them in the same direction as Earth travels in its orbit. Orbits are conic sections, so the formula for the distance of a body for a given angle corresponds...
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the use of projective geometry to create forced perspective, the use of conic sections in constructing domes and similar objects, the use of tessellations...
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from modern calculus. Other notable achievements of Greek mathematics are conic sections (Apollonius of Perga, 3rd century BC), trigonometry (Hipparchus...
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patched-conic method of trajectory design. The patched-conic method essentially seeks to "patch" together two (Keplerian) two-body ellipses (the conics) at...
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despite the presence of the much more massive but distant Sun. In the patched conic approximation, used in estimating the trajectories of bodies moving between...
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