leveysakseli
Leveysakseli, also known as the transverse axis, is a fundamental concept in geometry, particularly in the study of conic sections. It is defined as the line segment that passes through the center of a conic section and is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The term "leveysakseli" is derived from Finnish, where "leveys" means width and "akseli" means axis.
In the context of an ellipse, the transverse axis is the longer of the two axes. It
For a hyperbola, the transverse axis is the line segment that connects the two vertices of the
The transverse axis plays a crucial role in determining the shape and properties of conic sections. It