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Re: Partial Differentiation of Implicit Functions

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  • Subject: [mg83187] Re: Partial Differentiation of Implicit Functions
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:48:19 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,
E1 = -2 + x^2 + x z + y^2 + z^2;

eqn2 = (0 == x'[z] /. Solve[D[E1 /. x -> x[z], z] == 0, x'[z]][[1]]) /.
   x[z] -> x

Eliminate[{E1 == 0, eqn2}, z]

??

Regards
   Jens


Jay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some equations of the form:
> AA x^2 + BB y^2 + CC z^2 + DD x y +EE x z + FF y z + GG x + HH y + II z + 
> JJ== 0
> 
> I want to solve for e.g. partial dy/dz = 0 and then combine the result with 
> the original equation to get a new implicit equation.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> E1 := -2 + x^2 + x z + y^2 + z^2
> 
> (where I require E1 == 0)
> 
> Manually performing the differentiation gives:
> 
> partial dx/dz (y constant) = (x+2 z)/(2x + z) == 0
> 
> I can then go back into mathematica and do
> 
> Eliminate[{E1 == 0, 2*z + x == 0}, {z}]
> 
> giving:
> 
> 4 x y + 4 y^2 == 8 - 5 x^2
> 
> This is what I want but how do I do everything in Mathematica? I expected to 
> be able to do something like:
> 
>   Solve[E1==0,D[x,y]]
> 
> but it doesn't seem to work (says "0" is not a valid variable)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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