Re: Problem
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- Subject: [mg43000] Re: [mg42967] Problem
- From: Janak Wedagedera <janak at maths.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:26:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
It is not clear whether you want to plot
1. y as a function of x with c as a parameter
or
2. just a plot of the surface defined by c.
Case 1: Solve[y^2 - y + x - x^2 -c ==0,y]
and then use the solution for y to make the plot
Case 2:
c = (x - x^2) + (y - y^2);
Plot3D[c, {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}]
- Janak.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Andrew Thomas wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> This is a simple one but I cannot find out how to plot the following.
>
> c=(x-x^2)+(y-y^2) where c is a constant.
>
> The problem is that everytime I go to plot the plot is always defined
> as y=f(x,...) and so I cannot enter y^2 into the equation.
>
> Could someone please advise.
>
> Thank you and best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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