• geometry, two diameters of a conic section are said to be conjugate if each chord parallel to one diameter is bisected by the other diameter. For example...
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    measuring diameters Conjugate diameters – Perpendicular diameters of a circle or hyperbolic-orthogonal diameters of a hyperbola Diameter (group theory) – measure...
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    {\displaystyle {\overline {P_{2}Q_{2}}}} . Conjugate diameters in an ellipse generalize orthogonal diameters in a circle. In the parametric equation for...
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    pair of conjugate diameters are taken as new axes, and a new unit of length is taken proportional to the length of either of these diameters." On this...
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    (1801–1868). Conjugate diameters appear always if a circle or an ellipse is projected parallelly (the rays are parallel) as images of orthogonal diameters of a...
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    two diameters are said to be conjugate if and only if the tangent line to the ellipse at an endpoint of one diameter is parallel to the other diameter. Each...
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    {1}{2}}{\sqrt {\frac {ab}{ab-1}}}\;(u_{1}-v_{1},u_{2}-v_{2})\;} are two conjugate half diameters and the inellipse has the more common trigonometric parametric...
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    that the straight lines are conjugate diameters of both hyperbolas." "The two hyperbolas so constructed are called conjugate hyperbolas, and [the] last...
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    follows: The diameters or conjugates of the pelvis are measured at the pelvic inlet and outlet and as oblique diameters. Two diameters may be measured...
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    diameter. A conjugate diameter bisects the chords, being placed between the centroid and the tangent point. Moreover, both diameters are conjugate to each...
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    Osgood and Graustein used the rectangular hyperbola, its conjugate hyperbola, and conjugate diameters to rationalize tie rods at 15 degree radial spacing,...
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    transformation". This diagram included the unit hyperbola, its conjugate, and a pair of conjugate diameters. Since the 1960s a version of this more complete configuration...
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    particular, this action swaps the unit hyperbola with its conjugate and swaps pairs of conjugate diameters of the hyperbolas. In terms of the hyperbolic angle...
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  • the theory after the underlying principle. Background independence Conjugate diameters Cosmic microwave background radiation Equivalence principle Galilean...
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    mathematical notions preceded physical interpretation. For instance, conjugate diameters of a conjugate hyperbolas are related as space and time. The principle of...
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  • This terminology stems from the use of conjugate hyperbolas in the pseudo-Euclidean plane: conjugate diameters of these hyperbolas are hyperbolic-orthogonal...
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    retrieved 2023-09-25 Karmakar, Sibdas; Karmakar (2022-02-16), "Diameters and Conjugate Diameters", Analytical Geometry: Two Dimensions, London: CRC Press,...
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  • In numerical linear algebra, the conjugate gradient method is an iterative method for numerically solving the linear system A x = b {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol...
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    Hence semi diameter S D {\displaystyle SD} is conjugate to S C {\displaystyle SC} . With help of this pair of conjugate semi diameters the ellipse can...
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  • principle of relativity speed of light faster-than-light biquaternion conjugate diameters four-vector four-acceleration four-force four-gradient four-momentum...
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    consists of drawing the images of two perpendicular diameters of the circle, which are conjugate diameters of the image ellipse, determining the axes of the...
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    a simple construction for the axes of an ellipse when a pair of conjugate diameters are given. Pappus's Collection was virtually unknown to the Arabs...
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    electrical engineering:—Details the development of electrical engineering Conjugate diameters § Of hyperbola:–Succinct expression of the principle of relativity...
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    lines at A and D) uniquely determine the conic. If another diameter (and its conjugate diameter) are used instead of the major and minor axes of the ellipse...
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    volcano's crater is elliptical with a transverse diameter measuring 478 m (1,568 ft) and a conjugate diameter measuring 410 m (1,350 ft). The crater has an...
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    In projective geometry, the harmonic conjugate point of a point on the real projective line with respect to two other points is defined by the following...
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  • helix angle is greater for larger gear diameters. It is understood to be measured at the standard pitch diameter unless otherwise specified. Hobbing is...
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    the other two codots of ABCD (page 25). Continuing with conics, conjugate diameters are straights, each of which is the polar of the figurative point...
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  • procedure retrieves the semi-axes of an Ellipse from any pair of conjugate diameters. This method is known since 1845, when it was published within a...
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    axis of a hyperbola coincides with the major axis. In a hyperbola, a conjugate axis or minor axis of length 2 b {\displaystyle 2b} , corresponding to...
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