In the Cartesian coordinate system , the eccentricity of the hyperbola is ______.
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
According to the problem, the equation of the hyperbola is ,
thus , ,
then ,
therefore, its eccentricity ;
Hence, the answer is .
Based on the problem, the values of and can be obtained from the equation of the hyperbola, and the value of can be derived from the geometric properties of the hyperbola, which then allows for the calculation of the eccentricity using the formula for the eccentricity of a hyperbola.
This question examines the geometric properties of hyperbolas, with a key focus on being familiar with the standard form of the equation of a hyperbola.
Solution 2
To find the eccentricity of the hyperbola, recall the standard form of a hyperbola equation:
where and are the lengths of the semi-major and semi-minor axes respectively, and the eccentricity is defined as:
However, this definition changes for a hyperbola to:
since corresponds to the term with the positive coefficient.
Given the hyperbola equation , we can identify that:
Thus, the distance from the center to a focus of the hyperbola is:
Finally, the eccentricity of the hyperbola is:
Therefore, the eccentricity of the given hyperbola is .