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Intersections of a right circular conical surface Σ with a plane ε, orthogonal to its axis and not passing through its apex O, are circles (Proposition 4.8). When the plane is not orthogonal to the axis of Σ, the resulting intersections are ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas
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Pamfilos, P. (2024). Conic sections. In: Lectures on Euclidean Geometry - Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48910-5_6
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