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...point of tangency. An example is the point (0,0) on the graph of the cubic parabola y = x3. ...tps://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/n2003/TangentParabolaMod.html The Tangent Parabola by John H. Mathews]

*For a lens, or a [[sphere|spherical]] or [[parabola|parabolic]] [[mirror]], it is a point onto which collimated light parallel ...ng conic sections. The four types of conic sections are the [[circle]], [[parabola]], [[ellipse]], and [[hyperbola]].

...the object. For example, a basketball thrown from the ground moves in a [[parabola]] shape as it is in a uniform gravitational field. Similarly, [[Planetary|p

For instance, the geometry of a fifty Ultimaton-long chain looks like a parabola that has its feet dragging a load of coal. It takes all fifty Ultimatons to