1.Results The difference values calculated were various with the arch form, the sequence was oval, round, parabola, catenuliform, and hyperbola from big difference to smell.
9.Mathematically, the value of eccentricity varies between zero and one; with zero representing a circle and one transforming into another shape, called a parabola.
10.The Greek mathematicians know the properties of the parabola and so could have directed the assembly of small mirror pieces into the parabolic shape.
12.For three weeks, they practiced and performed as the plane did parabolas climbing until it goes over the hump, creating 27 seconds of weightlessness-time to open luggage and release a zillion balls.
13.Directly it was suspected they would either kill you at once and save themselves further useless effort, or let you recover sufficiently so that your nerves had crept back to the other side of the parabola.
14.She was composed, Anthony perceived, of a succession of semicircles and parabolas, like those figures that gifted folk make on the typewriter: head, arms, bust, hips, thighs, and ankles were in a bewildering tier of roundnesses.