Re: Plotting 2d graphs?
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- Subject: [mg57196] Re: Plotting 2d graphs?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 04:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 5/19/05 at 3:09 AM, psidoc at gmail.com (Paul Hughes) wrote:
>I'm having trouble using the basic 2d plot function. I want to be
>able to plot things such as a simple quadratic or ellipse:
>Examples: 2x^2 + 16x + 32 = 0 (Quadratic)
>(x-5)^2/16 + (y+4)^2/25 = 1 (Ellipse)
>But have failed to do so, having tried every variation i can think
>of to get it to work.
For your first example, try
Plot[2*x^2 + 16*x + 32, {x, -10, 2}];
Here, the arguements to plot are the function (2*x^2 + 16*x + 32) to be plotted and a list giving the independent variable and the range to sample it.
For your second example, try
<<Graphics`
ImplicitPlot[(x - 5)^2/16 + (y + 4)^2/25 == 1,
{x, 0, 10}, {y, -10, 4}, AspectRatio -> 1];
Here the arguments are the equation, (x - 5)^2/16 + (y + 4)^2/25 == 1 (note the usage of "==" instead of "=") and two list giving the variables and ranges for sampling each variable. I also changed the default aspect ratio so the resulting plot would be a truer representation of this ellipse.
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