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  1. Mar 3rd, 2003, 01:01 PM #1
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    Examples of parabola's

    I'm trying to find a few (real-life) examples of parabola's, and so far I've only found one A bridge: the top bit can be a parabola.

    Can anyone else supply me with a few more? Cheers!
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    The inside of car headlights are shaped as parabolas because if you stick a point light source at the focus of the curve, it reflects all the light in the same direction, namely out the front.
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    comets form parabolas when they are deflected by the gravitational pull of the sun
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    Rainbow,... The thing girls like to jump with,.. Hot balloon, and it's really hard to say many other things, because a parabola in geometry is only 2D, while things in the reality is mostly in 3D and 4D if you are an SR, GR student.

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    a projectile (bullet, ball etc)

    representations of maximum areas etc


    quite a few things..
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    Thanks!
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  8. Mar 4th, 2003, 02:19 PM #7
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    Comets actually follow elliptical orbits so they don't count.
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  9. Mar 4th, 2003, 04:33 PM #8
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    not the whole orbit man, but the bit around the sun & other stars
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