The following will serve as a brief overview of conic sections or in other words, the functions and graphs associated with the parabola, the circle, the ellipse, and the hyperbola. Initially, it should be noted that these functions are named conic sections since they represent the various ways in which a plane can intersect with a pair of cones.
The Parabola
The first conic section usually studied is the parabola. The equation of a parabola with a vertex at (h, k) and a vertical axis of symmetry is defined as (x