I'm trying to find resources for ellipses (in particular, how to find the area of a section of an ellipse) and all I seem to find are websites that basically copied and pasted each other's information over and over again.
So do any of you /sci/fags know how to find the area of a section of an ellipse, either from one of the foci (like in Kepler's 2nd law of planetary motion) or from the center?
Yeah, I know that. What I was talking about was the area of a section of an ellipse. Take an ellipse and draw 2 arbitrary lines that originate from either one of the foci or the center. The lines extend out to the perimeter of the ellipse. Is there a way to determine what the area enclosed by the two lines would be?
From the same point, so it roughly carves out a pie-slice shape. I guess I'll have to use parametric integration for what I'm looking for. Thanks to number 5, I was just hoping there was some generalized formula.