Photoelectric Effect and Conic section

[BrianKim]

Hi. I'm high school student who is doing a math project.
Yesterday, my project partner (to be precise, his teacher) told me that one can
prove the photoelectric effect with conic section, especially with hyperbola.
(But, actually, I can't even understand the meaning of the statement. For me, those seem unrelated with each other.)

Anyway.

Do you have any idea?

 

[PWiz]

I can't even understand the meaning of the statement.

Yes, even I can't understand this. Perhaps you should revert back to the professor and ask him what he meant? I've never heard of any such "proof".