some examples of a parabola are: bridges, McDonald's arches, skateboard ramps, satellite dish, smiles ... and some more
Parabolas are used in satalights and flash lights and archiceture and maths, whoever wrote eggs is very wrong parabolas ends never meet * * * * * All very true. The only problem is that a parabola is not an ellipse! One of the main uses for an ellipse is to describe planetary orbits.
Parabolas are used in real life in light reflectors on cars to create a concentrated beam of intense light. Braking distance and stopping distance are quadratic formulas so their graphs are parabolas. A ball in motion in space has a path of a parabola.
Planet's orbit :)
pi is an irrational number so most calculations involving circles, ellipses and other curves are likely to involve pi. All periodic motion, such as electromagnetic waves, sound, pendulums, etc are linked to pi.
I need hardly explain where you encounter circles.Ellipses are encountered when you cut a cylindrical object (e.g., a sausage) at an angle. Parabolas are the approximate paths taken by objects thrown into the air (when air resistance is insignificant). Hyperbolas: I may be wrong, but it would seem that these are less common in real life. ALL of the conic sections can be seen when you shine a flashlight onto a level floor (or some other plane), since the light cone is, precisely, a cone.
Well, in math you solve the perimeter of circles and such, and learn understanding of them to help you with circles in real life.
wheels
its critical. without circles our life will become miserable
a wheel
No - now just get a life!
The arc of a football when it is kicked is a hyperbola. The arch of a water spout from a hose. Some think the gateway arch is a hyperbola but it is a centenary arch which is close but just a little different.