Michael Nesmith

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

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Remember, the fixed point in a parabola's definition is called the 'focus' and is key in its formation.

Fixed Point Referenced

The fixed line in the parabola definition is known as the 'directrix', opposite the open side.

Fixed Line Called

A parabola has a reflective property where rays parallel to the axis of symmetry reflect through the focus.

Reflective Property

In algebra, a parabola represents a quadratic relationship, which always follows a squared term pattern.

Quadratic Relationship

The parabola's vertex is the maximum or minimum point and where it turns.

Vertex Point

A parabolic graph is always symmetrical across its vertical axis, which runs through the vertex.

Symmetrical Shape

Architecturally, a parabola provides strong structural support and aesthetic appeal to buildings.

Structural Strength

Parabolic shapes in construction help evenly distribute weight and withstand load.

Efficient Design

Nature often uses parabolas, as they appear in plants, animal structures, and physical phenomena.

Natural Forms

 to try and solve that crisis. I had just taken trigonometry in high school, I learned about the parabola and how it could concentrate rays of light to a single focus. That got me very excited. And I really felt that there would be potential to build some kind of thing that could concentrate light.

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 is actually a curve called a parabola. This is represented by a simple equation, and it's a beautiful pattern. So this is the stuff that we do. We find patterns, and we represent them. And I think this is a nice day-to-day definition. But today I want to go a little bit deeper,

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 training methods used to convince those elephants to be rideable okay well maybe I assume we're talking about Justin here maybe I can't be angry with him anymore or Taylor because she'll sir as the parabolas issue because one of them has

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 oily liquid the sounds that the sperm whale generates are bizarrely created at the front of the nose traveled back through the stoma Ceti until they hit this portion of the skull which is shaped like a satellite dish a parabola

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 huge parabolic or curved mirrors when the Sun heat that the mirrors is reflected just here this is what a parabola does every every point under on the mirror got to one line this line is like a magnifying glass getting really

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 And then it comes to rest. Just a little thing about time. Now, this has expanded into a much bigger piece, because I use ramps of different parabolas that I roll the balls on while I'm keeping time with this.

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 crowd at the fairgrounds the following day is the auction we will sell the young ones it gives us money for fire trucks parabolas rescue equipment and these mixes make sure the ponies survive all winter long

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 photograph a lot of people say that the camera is a shield that protects them to me it's more of a purifier it's like a parabola can tell it just focuses the emotions and the aesthetic qualities and

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 Let's see what happens if we model this equation on a coordinate grid. Since the formula is quadratic, the relationship between height and time spent in the air has the shape of a parabola.

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 to experience what weightlessness was truly like. And after that first parabola, you know, the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go. So we did a second parabola.

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