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Welcome to the Conic Sections course, Parabolas! Conic sections are the shapes that can be created when a plane intersects a double cone. The four types of conic sections are circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas. In this course, we will be focusing on the conic section, the parabola.

##### Course Vocabulary
• Open Downwards/Upwards – The direction the parabola opens up. A parabola that opens upwards looks like a smiley face, while a parabola that opens downwards looks like a frowny face.
• Vertex (maximum or minimum point) – The highest or lowest point on a parabola.
• Axis of Symmetry – The line throw the vertex that marks where the parabola is symmetrical.
• Intercepts – Where the parabola crosses the x or y axis.
• Slope – The change in y / change in x.
• Secant line of a curve – Line that touches two or more points.
• Value of a Limit – The value a function approaches as you get infinitesimally close to a specified point.
• Infinity – a concept that is larger than any other number, and is used to discuss function behavior on the long term, infinity is not actually a number.
• Infinitesimal – a concept that is closer to zero than any other number, and is used to discuss function behavior as close as possible to a specified value, also not actually a number.
• Derivative Limit Definition – $\lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$
• Tangent – Line at a point which only crosses one point on the slope. This represents the rate of change at that point.
• Multiplication by Constant – $\frac{d}{dx} (cf) = cf\prime$
• Constant – $\frac{d}{dx} (c) = 0$
• Addition – $\frac{d}{dx}(f+g)=f\prime + g\prime$
• Subtraction – $\frac{d}{dx}(f-g)=f\prime – g\prime$
• Power Rule – $\frac{d}{dx}(x^n) = nx^{n-1}$
• Product Rule – $\frac{d}{dx} (fg)=f\prime g + fg\prime$
• Quotient Rule – $\frac{d}{dx} (f/g)=(f\prime g + fg\prime) / g^2$
• Chain Rule – $\frac{d}{dx}(f\circ g)(x)=f'(g(x))g'(x)$

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