2007-08-12 21:25:16 · 4 answers · asked by amelia s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Energy
2007-08-12 21:35:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In business you use it to find the most profitable point and when to stop making something that becomes less profitable if you make more (maximise profit)
In the military the shape of the parabola represents the path of a projectile from a canon or a missile fired upward. Trajectory tables and at what angle to aim a canon determined the fate of many sea battles.
The shape of a parabola is used in your satellite dish to receive programs.
Your car head lights have parabolic reflectors behind them to help focus their beams.
Every arch shape you see under a bridge, a tunnel opening, or as part of any structure.
Just look around for any phenomenon that rises peaks then fades, the shock wave of an earthquake, population growth of a community, growth and death of a population of bacteria in a dish etc....
It is all around you and you just need to be more aware of it.
2007-08-12 21:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by 037 G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The petronas towers, the sydney opera house and aother architectural and applied sciences such as engineering use the parabola to determine volume, area, differentiation and integration from a quadratic graph to represent conservative and nonconcervative factors
2007-08-12 21:47:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
quadratic graph is usually is a parabolic graph
it is used in determining the maximum or minimum value of the graph
the vertex of parabola is the point of maximum or minimum value
it is useful in business or analysis of products or sales
2007-08-12 21:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by CPUcate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋