Question

What is the transverse axis of a hyperbola?

Answer 1

The transverse axis of a hyperbola is the line that contains the two vertices and the two focuses.

In this example (hyperbola of equation `x^2/2-y^2/4=1`), the transverse axis is the X-Axis .
graph{x^2/2-y^2/4=1 [-10, 10, -5.25, 5.17]}

In this example (hyperbola of equation `x^2/2-y^2/4=-1`), the transverse axis is the Y-Axis .
graph{x^2/2-y^2/4=-1 [-10, 10, -5.25, 5.17]}