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I can't figure out why neither of these commands (\\ or \newline) will work to start a new line for all of my equations.

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}


\begin{document}
\maketitle % showing both title and author, plus and automatic date
Consider the conic section
\begin{equation}

Ax^2+Bxy+Cy^2+Dx+Ey+F=0.

\end{equation}
If $B\neq0$, then to eliminate the xy term, we rotate the axes through an acute angle $\theta$ where 
\begin{equation}

\cot(2\theta)=\frac{A-C}{B}.

\end{equation}
In the equation
\begin{equation}
11x^2-24xy+4y^2+20=0,
\end{equation}
$A=11$, $B=-24$, $C=4$, $D=0$, $E=0$, and $F=20$. We will rotate the xy-axis     through an angle where
\begin{equation}
\cot(2\theta)=\frac{11-4}{-24}=\frac{-7}{24}.
\end{equation}
We will replace x and y with 
\begin{equation}
x=X\cos\theta-Y\sin\theta 
y=X\sin\theta+Y\cos\theta.
\end{equation}
We use the multiple angle formulas for sine and cosine that come from the   addition formulas for sine and cosine
\begin{equation}
\cos(2\theta)=\cos^2(\theta)-\sin^2(\theta) and 
\sin(2\theta)=2\sin(\theta)\cos(\theta).
\end{equation}
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    Environment equation is for one line equation. For multi line equations you need to use amsath environments like gather, align, multline, split etc. Welcome to TeX.SE!
    – Zarko
    Oct 30, 2016 at 20:41
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    Welcome! :) In your MWE you also have blank lines withing some of your equation environments. This will always fail as blank lines cannot appear in equation environments
    – Au101
    Oct 30, 2016 at 20:46
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    @Au101 -- actually, blank lines aren't allowed in any math. this is built into the tex engine, to allow a check (at every paragraph break) to ensure that math environments are completely self-contained, and not "run on". Oct 30, 2016 at 21:48

2 Answers 2

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Is this what you're looking for

We will replace x and y with

\begin{align*}
x=&X\cos\theta-Y\sin\theta \\
y=&X\sin\theta+Y\cos\theta.
\end{align*}

It is better to use align environment. If you want these equations to be numbered :

We will replace x and y with

\begin{align}
x=&X\cos\theta-Y\sin\theta \\
y=&X\sin\theta+Y\cos\theta.
\end{align}

(Edit) If you want only one of the equation to be numbered :

We will replace x and y with

\begin{align}
x=&X\cos\theta-Y\sin\theta \nonumber\\
y=&X\sin\theta+Y\cos\theta.
\end{align}
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Let me transform my comment to the answer:

Environment equation is intended for one line equation. For multi line equations you should use amsmath or mathtools (which is extended version of amsmath˙ package) environments like gather, align, multline, split to be numbered some of them. For details, read documentation for packages for amsmath or mathtools, or see LaTeX/Mathematics.

In example below is corrected your MWE, where is demonstrated use of split and align environment (from whole MWE is shown only part with use split and align)

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Of course, select of appropriate amsmath environment is left to you.

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