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Re: is there a way to swap the axes in a Plot?

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  • Subject: [mg29944] Re: is there a way to swap the axes in a Plot?
  • From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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A general solution to inverting the graph of a function f[x] is to use
ParametricPlot:
ParametricPlot[{f[x],x},{x,x0,x1}]
Orestis

"David E. Burmaster" <deb at alceon.com> wrote in message
news:9j3a1k$im7$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> Is there an easy way to "transpose" the Plot of a graph?
>
> I know the inverse function in closed form (and it is impossible to invert
> in closed form).
>
> In other words, I have an equation in closed form for:
>
> x =  f^-1[y]
>
> I want to Plot this inverse function, then "transpose" the graph so that
> the final graphic has x on the horizontal axis and y on the vertical axis.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> many thanks,
> David E. Burmaster
>
> deb at Alceon.com
>
>
>




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