Given that line passes through the focus of the parabola , and intersects the parabola at points and . If point is :
(I) Find the equation of the parabola ;
(II) Calculate the length of segment .
Given that line passes through the focus of the parabola , and intersects the parabola at points and . If point is :
(I) Find the equation of the parabola ;
(II) Calculate the length of segment .
(I) According to the problem, the parabola passes through point .
So, we substitute the coordinates of point into the equation: .
Therefore, the equation of the parabola is: .
(II) From part (I), we know that the focus of the parabola has coordinates , and we also have point .
The slope of line is given by: .
So, the equation of line is: , which can be rewritten as .
Substituting the equation of the parabola into the equation of line , we get the coordinates of point as .
Hence, the length of segment is given by: .