A lithotripter is based on an ellipse with the equation given on the right Find...

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A lithotripter is based on an ellipse with the equation given on the right Find the distance from the ellipse s center to the kidney stone and to the beam source Use the fact that c a b The distance is Give an exact answer Simplify radicals if possible Lithotripter a machine used to crush kidney stones using shock waves The patient is placed in an elliptical tub with the kidney stone at a focus of the ellipse A beam is projected from the other focus to the tub so that it reflects to hit the kidney stone x y Equation 64 25 A 1

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