Re: Slope fields
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- Subject: [mg43752] Re: Slope fields
- From: poujadej at yahoo.fr (Jean-Claude Poujade)
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
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"Steven Jonak" <jonakst at gw.kirkwood.k12.mo.us> wrote in message news:<blcqsf$p8q$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> I'm a relative newbie to Mathematica and am interested in generating slope fields. Is there a way for me to see the slope field for a differential equation such as dy/dx=2x or similar first-order seperable differential equations?
>
> S Jonak
Steven,
You can use PlotVectorField (with normalized arrow length)
to plot slope fields.
This is an example with y'=2x :
<<Graphics`
PlotVectorField[{1,2x}/Sqrt[1+(2x)^2],{x,-1,1},{y,-1,1},Axes->True]
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jcp