Conic Sections In Electronics

[Effervescingelephant]

For my analytic geometry class we are doing a final project on conic sections and matrices. We are supposed to incorporate our passion into this project as long as it has something to do with Conic sections or matrices. Any ideas?

 

[cr0sh]

Maybe you could rig up a microcontroller to output conic sections as an x/y plot to an oscilloscope (similar to a Lissajous generator)?

 

[rahila]

did'nt get you.. please clarify your question by explaining what you meant actually..

 

[BrownOut]

A parabolic reflector for a mic to hear faint or distant sounds. There are many common items that have approximately parabolic shapes. Use can use dimentional measurements and the equations to find what items have the best parabloic shape, and try to find the focal point to place a mic.

I swear, every time I look at my cooking lids, I see parabolas.

 

[Speakerguy]

Parabolic reflector for a high power LED. I think they make them so you can incorporate them into a PCB.

 

[MrAl]

Hi,


This might be stretching it a bit, but, if i remember right the poles of an elliptical filter lie on an ellipse.

 

[ash20]

you can use matlab... it contains everything which can fancy your project...

 

[Effervescingelephant]

Thanks guys! I ended up doing Lissajous figures on an oscilloscope. They look pretty sweet, not to mention they are quite interesting! Thanks for the help.