The minimum point is the minimum y value that the parabola reaches. The maximum point is the maximum y value that the parabola reaches. The symmetry of the parabola is created because each x value ...

Image caption, You can see that the coins in this formation make a parabola (a u-shaped symmetrical curve). You can see this clearly if you line the coins up with a piece of card and draw a curve ...

The language of math By his own reckoning ... but always precisely a parabola. And when lemons dropped from treetops, or cannonballs from towers, each one picked up speed in the same ...