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I have a research paper due on real life uses of conic sections |
Erika,
How about the wheels on a bicycle or the wheels on a car? How does the odometer in a car know how far the car has travelled? Does it use the circumference of the circular tire?
The information on the hard drive on your computer or on a DC or DVD is stored in concentric circles.
Why do above ground pools have a circular shape?
All of trigonometry is based on the circle. In fact many books call the section on trigonometry Circular Functions.
These are a few ideas.
Penny
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