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How can I plot

Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)

in all its domain?

Domain = FunctionDomain[{ Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, x]

Domain is : x <= -1 || 0 <= x <= 1

I tried 

Plot[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, {x, -100, -1}]

but I really dont know how!

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    $\begingroup$ What are you asking?... $\endgroup$ – garej Mar 29 '16 at 19:05
  • $\begingroup$ I want to plot the function Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1) and I cant $\endgroup$ – Sofia Paz Jimenez Castillo Mar 29 '16 at 19:11
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    $\begingroup$ Plot[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, {x, -10, 1}]? $\endgroup$ – garej Mar 29 '16 at 19:12
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    $\begingroup$ The curly braces are not necessary here. $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mar 29 '16 at 19:31
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Here's one approach:

Plot[Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1), 
    Element[x, ImplicitRegion[FunctionDomain[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, x], x]]]

enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ Interesting! I wasn't aware you can use region specification directly on Plot like that. $\endgroup$ – kirma Mar 30 '16 at 4:36
  • $\begingroup$ BTW, I believe the pedantically correct way would be to write Element[{x}, ...]. Otherwise x is actually treated as an one-dimensional vector, and it might not always work as it should as a scalar. $\endgroup$ – kirma Mar 30 '16 at 4:40
  • $\begingroup$ There's probably some difference between x and {x} in Plot, but I don't know of any off the top of my head. If you find any, let me know. $\endgroup$ – Brett Champion Mar 30 '16 at 15:57
  • $\begingroup$ I suspect Plot does some magic with its argument, since it knows that it cannot be multidimensional vector, anyway. Normally there's a difference between x and {x} in these cases (and documentation indicates that {x} should be used), but now it seems impossible to spot from insides of Plot. $\endgroup$ – kirma Mar 30 '16 at 17:10
  • $\begingroup$ I know Plot does some magic with its argument. :-) $\endgroup$ – Brett Champion Mar 30 '16 at 19:25
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I believe that you are looking for something like the following. It uses the Show function to combine the two plots.

Show[Plot[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, {x, -10, -1}], 
 Plot[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, {x, 0, 1}], PlotRange -> All]
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  • $\begingroup$ @JMM, Plot[{Sqrt[x - x^3]/(x^2 + 1)}, {x, -10, 1}, AxesOrigin -> {-10, 0}] is enough $\endgroup$ – garej Mar 29 '16 at 19:23
  • $\begingroup$ @SofiaPazJimenezCastillo Don't forget to accept one of the answers by clicking the check mark. $\endgroup$ – Jens Mar 30 '16 at 2:33

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