Re: Vector field with ImplicitPlot ?
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- Subject: [mg37551] Re: Vector field with ImplicitPlot ?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 04:59:04 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
> This plots a nice implicit plot for various values of e1. What I wish to do is to attach a
> "sense" to the contours (an arrow that describes the direction of the orbit).
that is nonsense, because the direction of the orbit depend on your
initial
condition. Start with a positive x'[t] and a negative x[t] and your
orbit
is counter clock wise and with a negative x'[t] your orbit is clock
wise.
Regards
Jens
Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>
> I wish to do plot a vector field plot of an implicit solution.
>
> Equations :
>
> (*V[x] is a polynomial function defined earlier *)
> e[x_, v_] := 1/2 v^2 + V[x];
> t3 = Table[e[x, v] == e1, {e1, 0, 1, 0.2}];
> ImplicitPlot[Evaluate[t3], {x, \(-2\), 2}];
>
> This plots a nice implicit plot for various values of e1. What I wish to do is to attach a
> "sense" to the contours (an arrow that describes the direction of the orbit).
>
> However, I am at a loss as to how to do it with PlotVectorField.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> PS : Is there a way in which I can "automate" the labelling of the curves with the values
> of e1 they are plotted for (something better than manually editing the labels to the plot
> each time I change the range of e1) ?
>
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