Thinking back on your high school days, you may remember terms such as trapezoid, rhombus, and parabola. Although you may have yet to recall what those shapes are, one of them is where parabolic ...

Parabolic reflectors are reflectors made in the shape of a parabola, or a curve on which all points are equidistant from a focus point as well as a line known as the directrix. To us, it just ...

Schematic diagram of a parabolic reflector. Incoming sound is directed to the microphone placed at the focus of the parabola-shaped reflector. The property of the parabolic shape to reflect all sound ...