6.6 The focus-Directrix Property
Although the Greeks defined the conic sections as sections of cones, it is customary, in collage courses in analytic geometry, to define them by the focus-directrix property. Establish the following lemma (a) and then complete the simple proof in (b) that any section of a right circular cone possesses the focus-directrix property.
(a) The lengths of any two line segments from a point to a plane are inversely proportional to the sines of the angles which the ling segments make with the plane.