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Re: perturbing constant in Para plots

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  • Subject: [mg38956] Re: perturbing constant in Para plots
  • From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:12:21 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/21/03 at 7:38 AM, google.news.invalid at web2news.net (Narasimham
G.L.) wrote:

>How to perturb the constant f in parametric plots?
>
>f= 1  ;' for single f value' 
>xy= { 2 f Sin[t]^2 ,Sinh[f t]+f Log[t] };
>ParametricPlot[ xy , {t,0,2}];

>An attemt to Map did not work. 
>' f={ .5,1,1.5};' 
>'trj = Map [ xy  &, f];' 

Assuming what you wrote is what you have in your Mathematica session, it doesn't work becuase you definied xy to be something independent of f before trying to map it to the new values of f.

Try trj = { 2 # Sin[t]^2 ,Sinh[f t]+# Log[t] }&/@{ .5,1,1.5};


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