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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2021 Paper 1 1 d Solution by
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Put . For , elimination of givesThese are oblate spheroids with equatorial radius and polar radius , flattened along the axis. At the limiting surface is the disk , .
For , elimination of instead givesThese are one-sheet hyperboloids of revolution, restricted to their upper half for and lower half for . The restriction matters because . At , the surface degenerates to the exterior equatorial plane , ; at it degenerates to the corresponding half of the axis.
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