Preposition: of

• joy: Identify the following snippets from various parabolas of joy, and their authors.

Converse of object

• describe: There was a dead silence of suspense among the crowd as the ball described a lofty parabola.

Adjective modifier

• cubical: In 1657 he became the first to find the arc length of an algebraic curve when he rectified the cubical parabola.

Modifies a noun

• y: Fig 3 Graph of parabola y = x 2 Why not try generating and displaying another simple function, say an exponential function?