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A Unified General Theory of Conic Sections via the Conic Radical

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English

Article number

138

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Mathematics (Volume 14, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2026

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Published - 01/01/2026

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  • Scopus: 105027968306

Abstract

In this paper, we bring forth several new general formulae in the classic study of conics in the Analytic Geometry: the coordinates of all vertices and focal points of arbitrary parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas; lengths for all latera recta from any non-degenerate conic section; equations describing straight lines whose limited-slope contents stand on exactly equal footing as focal axes, latera recta, and directrices from every non-degenerate conic section; and, respectively, these ones characterizing asymptotes for each non-degenerate hyperbola. All these general results work regardless of whether the conics in question are rotated or not on the Cartesian plane, because all of them depend only on the coefficients of the general conic equation, making the rotation angle irrelevant for the analysis of conic sections.