Re: plot
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- Subject: [mg110719] Re: plot
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:18:17 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <i0k2jv$k0f$1@smc.vnet.net>
Am Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:26:08 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Sunt <sunting.05 at gmail.com>:
> On Jul 2, 2:57 pm, agua <auguayl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > With Plot[( (2x+1) Sqrt[x+1] ) / Sqrt[x-1] ,{x,-5,5}]
> > hoped to obtain a graph only for x>1.
> >
> > What happened?
> > regards.
>
> Hi,
> Add PlotRange option in the command Plot like:
> Plot[( (2x+1) Sqrt[x+1] ) / Sqrt[x-1] ,{x,-5,5},PlotRange->{1,100}]
>
or simply type Plot[...,{x,1,5}].
Plot plots whenever the expression to plot is real valued. Use
Mathematica to see that for real x your expression is real valued iff
x<=-1, x==-1/2 or x>1:
In[1]:= Reduce[Im[((2x+1) Sqrt[x+1])/Sqrt[x-1]]==0==Im[x],x]
Out[1]= x<=-1||x==-(1/2)||x>1
P=C2=B2