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Re: Mathematical Modeling Problem II

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  • Subject: [mg59644] Re: Mathematical Modeling Problem II
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:50:35 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: The University of Western Australia
  • References: <ddf5m4$onl$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <ddf5m4$onl$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Sycamor at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello.  I am a high school student working on a summer research project
> at a local university.  My task is to model a certain physical
> situations using Mathematica.  I am still ignorant of the programs
> profound, and not-so-profound secrets.  At the moment, I find myself
> unable to plot a vertical line.  How does one create a vertical line
> and show that line on the same axes as a set of data points?  Ideally,
> I would also like to keep the vertical scale the same.
> 
> In my quest for a vertical line, I have tried using very steep curves,
> and using the ImplicitPlot package.  I expect I am missing something
> very obvious.  

There have been many suggestions -- but none have suggested using 
ParametricPlot:

  data = {{1,2},{2,3},{2,4}};

  ParametricPlot[{1, y}, {y, 0, 4}, Epilog -> Point /@ data];

ParametricPlot is the obvious solution for plotting relations.

Cheers,
Paul

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