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Hyperbola
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Examples of hyperbola |
Equilateral or rectangular hyperbola with the coordinate axes as its
asymptote
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Translation
of equilateral or rectangular hyperbola with the coordinate axes as its
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| Examples
of hyperbola |
| Example:
The hyperbola is given by equation
4x2
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9y2 + 32x + 54y -
53 =
0. |
| Find coordinates of the
center, the foci, the eccentricity and the asymptotes of the hyperbola. |
| Solution:
The given hyperbola is translated in the direction of the coordinate axes so the values of
translations x0 and
y0
we can find by using the method of completing the square
rewriting the equation in |
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form, |
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Thus,
4x2 + 32x
-
9y2 + 54y -
53 =
0,
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4(x2 + 8x) -
9(y2 -
6y) -
53 =
0
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4[(x +
4)2 -
16] -
9[(y -
3)2 -
9] -
53 =
0
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4(x + 4)2 -
9(y -
3)2 = 36 | ¸
36
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follows that a2 =
9, a
= 3,
b2 = 4,
b
= 2,
and the center of the hyperbola at S(x0, y0)
or S(-4,
3). |
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the focal distance |
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the
eccentricity |
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and the foci, F1(x0
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c,
0) so
F1(-4
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Ö13,
0) and
F2(x0
+ c,
0),
F1(-4
+ Ö13,
0). |
| Equations of the asymptotes of a translated hyperbola |
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hyperbola, |
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| Example:
Write the equation of the hyperbola 9x2
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25y2 = 225
in the vertex form. |
| Solution:
Using parallel shifting we should place the center of the hyperbola at
S(-a,
0). |
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9x2
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25y2 = 225 | ¸
225 |
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therefore,
a = 5 and
b = 3,
so that S(-5,
0). |
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Then, the translated
hyperbola with the center at S(-5,
0) has the equation
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| Equilateral or rectangular hyperbola with the coordinate axes as its
asymptote
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graph of the reciprocal function y
= 1/x or y
= k/x is a rectangular
(or right) hyperbola of which asymptotes are the coordinate axes. |
| If k
> 0 then, the
function is decreasing from zero to negative infinity
and from positive infinity to zero, i.e., the graph of
the rectangular hyperbola opening in the first and third
quadrants as is shown in the right figure. |
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| Translation
of equilateral or rectangular hyperbola with the coordinate axes as its
asymptote |
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by dividing the
numerator by denominator, |
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rewritten into |
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where, |
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are the vertical and
the horizontal asymptote respectively. |
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the values of the vertical and the horizontal asymptotes correspond to
the coordinates of the horizontal and the vertical translation of the
reciprocal function y
= k/x as is shown in
the figure below. |
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