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Re: Dumb question

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  • Subject: [mg27800] Re: Dumb question
  • From: Yossi Lonke <jrl16 at po.cwru.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:37:57 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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> From: Gustavo Seabra <gseabra at swbell.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Organization: Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
> Date: 14 Mar 2001 04:45:22 -0500
> Subject: [mg27800] Dumb question
> 
> Hello. I know this may be a dumb question, and I apologize for doing that.
> But I am new to Mathematica, and I'm having a little trouble with this. I
> want to plot the equation:
> 
> P=[sin(a-x)*t/(a-x)]^2
> 
> with fixed t (say, 1) and fixed a (say, Pi/2), with x varying from 0 to Pi.
> I know there is a discontinuity at x=a. Is there a way to plot this? I mean,
> P(x) versus x?
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
> Chemistry Department
> Kansas State University
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
Actually the discontinuity is removable, (the limit is of course 1).
Mathematica knows this and will plot this function like any other function.

As a graduate student, you should try out things for yourself, lest you will
never learn anything.

Yossi Lonke




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