ellipse in a real life application?

Question

Doing a project on real life applications with conic sections. Real life situation used as a probloem and justified explanation (answer).

Answer 1

One real life situation of an ellpse involves planet paths of revolution around the sun. Peek at the following websites.

http://www.cso.caltech.edu/outreach/log/NIGHT_DAY/elliptical.htm

http://www.analemma.com/Pages/EllipticalOrbit/EllipticalOrbitEffect/EllipticalOrbitEffect.html