Questions tagged [parametric-functions]
Questions about explicit functions expressed in terms of independent variables, i.e. parameters. Including approaches for rewriting functions using different parameterizations.
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How to get intersection values from a parametric graph?
I have this graphed:
ParametricPlot[{2.4*Cos[t] + 1.6*Cos[3 t/2], 2.4*Sin[t] - 1.6 Sin[3 t/2]}, {t, 0, 4*Pi}]
It is a star, and the lines cross each other twice ...
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How do I obtain the enclosed area of this particular parametric plot?
I'm trying to find a way to obtain the enclosed area of this particular plot. Can someone show me how?
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Find eigen energies of time-independent Schrödinger equation
I'm trying to get the eigenvalues of a one dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation,
$-\frac{h^2}{2m_0}\frac{d^2\psi}{dx^2}+U(x)~\psi=Ei~\psi$
where U(x) is some potential and Ei is the ...
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Solve stiff system by shooting method
I'm trying to solve a second order differential equation with the shooting method but, it appears to be a stiff system. This is worst for a larger parameter $\mu$. I've tried different methods: ...
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Find Where a Parametric Equation Overlaps [duplicate]
I have a parametric equation:
r[t_] = {2.9 Cos[3.2 Pi t], Sin[4 Pi t] + 5 t};
which overlaps at a point in the $\{-x, y\}$ region of a plot.
I'm trying to ...
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How to add a fading trail effect in Animate?
I would like to add a smooth fading effect to the end of a curve, while it is animated. Here's a minimal working example which shows a particle moving on a circle (the circle is drawn while the ...
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My 3D plot of a Klein bottle doesn't look right
I have found the following parametrisation for a Klein bottle:
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Minkowski sum and product of 2D-regions
Let $A_j$, $j=1,\dots,n$ be subsets of $\mathbb C$ defined by
$$ A_j=\{z\,|\,f_j(z)\geq0\} $$
where $f_j:\mathbb C\to\mathbb R$ are given functions.
I am interested in the following subsets of $\...
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How to plot a certain surface? What is its parametric equation?
The surface show below is very beautiful; however, I don't know its function either as an implicit function or in parametric form.
Anyone have an idea about it and how to draw it with Mathematica?
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Plot a function for different parameters
Suppose I have a function that I want to plot for several values of a parameter all in the same window. For instance the function $f$ defined as
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Filling between parametric plots
I am new with Mathematica, but am trying to fill an area between two parametric plots
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Continuously varying tube radius
I'm currently trying to draw tubular neighborhoods of torus knots, which Mathematica's Tube function allows me to do quite easily. My question regards the ...
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Spherical parametric plot
How can I plot such a parametrized curve:
$r = 2\cos t + \sin t$
$\theta = t$
$\phi = \sin 10t$
where $0<t<\pi/2$.
In the documentation only has been discussed parametric plot in Cartesian ...
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Logarithmic scale in an ParametricPlot obtained from ODE boundary conditions
How do I plot an ParametricPlot with the x-axis using an logarithmic scale?
Since I need to use an ParametricPlot, I can not use the LogLinPlot[] and I also was not able to find any viable Solution in ...
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How to find the parametric equation of the von Mises yield function?
The von Mises yield function is given by:
$
\Phi(\sigma_1,\sigma_2)=\sqrt{\sigma_{1}^{2} +\sigma_{2}^{2}-\sigma_{1} \sigma_{2}} - \sigma_y
$
were $\sigma_1$ and $\sigma_2$ are the principal ...
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How do you find the self-intersection points of a single parametric trigonometric function? [duplicate]
How do you use Solve or FindRoot or other Mathematica functions to find the points at which the graph of ${\bf a}(t) = 3 \cos (3....
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Find the parameter values satisfying conditions for all roots of an equation
Hi I'm very new at Mathematica.
My real problems concerns a much more difficult equation with many parameters, but I want to check that the method is good, so I made up a test equation.
My test ...
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Solve for the intersection point of 3 surfaces
Basically, I have three 2-torus (tilted) in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. They are expressed by parametric equations:
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Finding intersections of two parametric curves
I am dealing with the root finding of two parametric data curves (data below).
I have already checked Parametric Interpolation of 2D data, which I found useful for plotting, though it is not adequate ...
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Create a moving plot along a parametric plot using Manipulate?
I have been looking through Manipulate examples and haven't been able to create a working plot yet. I have a parametric plot defined:
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Using ParametricNDSolve and NMinimize to find accurate interplanetary trajectory arrival periapse radius
I have an interplanetary trajectory simulation that calculates the required velocity (using a Lambert solver) and escape angle for a spacecraft to travel from Earth to Mars. This model does not use a ...
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How do I plot a parametric family of curves given a list of parameter values?
I tried plotting the function shown below in Mathematica; however the plot showed nothing. Could you help me explain it?
Note that here D' = 1- x.
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How to `ParametricPlot` a system of ODEs for a set of initial conditions?
I want to ParametricPlot the solution to a differential equation for which an initial value ranges from 1 to 10.
The problem (I believe) is that I don't know how ...
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Solve / brute-force for parameters that drive a function to zero at specified points
Edit: Made question a lot easier to read.
Simple example.
- Consider $p(x,y,z,t) = e^t(ax^2 + by^2 + cz^2)$ and I seek the values of $a,b,c$ which make $p\approx0$ at the point $(x=r\cos\theta,y=r\...
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How to plot a rotated ellipse using `ParametricPlot`?
I'm plotting the von Mises yield surface using CountourPlot and ParametricPlot.
With ...
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PlotStyle based on If condition
So in the If[evecs==Re[evecs], I want to then change the colour in PlotStyle of the ...
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Eliminating variables from system of equation using Eliminate or Solve
I have a system of equations for algebraic curve given by the zero locus of some polynomial encoded in the system of equations (I want to eliminate variable z and get algebraic curve in terms of x and ...
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ParametricPlot3D with three variables
ParametricPlot3D can be used with one or two variables to plot paths and surfaces in 3-D such as
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Problem combining ParametricNDSolve with NonlinearModelFit
Final Edit: I have found a solution! Specifying Method->"LevenbergMarquardt", Gradient->"FiniteDifference" gives the behavior I am looking for. Huzzah! It appears that the crashing behavior was coming ...
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Finding the Period of a Limit Cycle
I'm interested in the periods of limit cycles of the Wilson-Cowan equations which have the form
$$x'(t) = -x + S(ax(t) - by(t) +e)$$
$$y'(t) = -y + S(cx(t) - dy(t) + f)$$
where $$S(x) = 1 + \frac{...
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Symbolic area calculation for a parametric self-intersecting closed curve
The parametric equation of the curve is:
$$\begin{cases}
x &= -9 \sin (2 t)-5 \sin (3 t) \\[6pt]
y & = 9 \cos (2 t)-5 \cos (3 t)
\end{cases}\quad t\in[0,2\pi]$$
which can be easily ...
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Fitting experimental data by using ParametricNDSolveValue and NonlinearModelFit
I am a newcomer to Mathematica.
Basically I just want to fit the data (enzyme kinetic data) shown below to a system of odes' by using NonlinearModelFit. The data, an 101x2 array, contains time in the ...
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Switching parameter lines on/off in a 3D parametric plot
In a classroom demonstration for
ParametricPlot3D [{f[u, v], g[u, v], h[u, v]}, {u, ... }, {v, ... }]
I want to show
u lines only without v,
v lines only ...
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Is Mathematica capable of converting parametric equations into a function? If so, how?
I've been trying to find the formula for the offset/parallel to a sine wave. Not just the parametric equation, but the y = f(x) form.
Here's what I've done so far: Read up on the parametric form and ...
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Two different solutions for the same ContourPlot while using AccuracyGoal and WorkingPrecission
I was making a contour plot, of some differential equation however I get two different solutions If I use "AccuracyGoal" and "Working Precision". The question will appear long but ...
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Plot a parametric function from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{R}^2$
I want to plot the following function defined on $[-1,1]\times[-1,1]\setminus(0,0)$:
$$
F(x,y,t)=
\begin{cases}
(1-t)(x,y)+t(1,\frac{y}{x})& \text{if}\ -x\leq y\leq x \\
(1-t)(x,y)+t(\frac{x}{y}...
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Oval or Bunimovich stadium
The dynamic billiard demonstration, that can be found on wolfram demonstrations (here), is only designed for an ellipsoid-shape boundary(snapshot below).
The idea is to have a dynamic billiard with ...
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How to fill the closed region by ParametricPlot with solid color?
I am interested in the following implicit curve with parametric equation:
$$
\left\{\quad
\begin{array}{rl}
x=& 9 \sin 2 t+5 \sin 3 t \\
y=& 9 \cos 2 t-5 \cos 3 t \\
\end{array}
\right.
$$
...
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Finding a parametric curve fitting a two-dimensional dataset
I have a 2-dimensional data set where I want to find the function that fits best the points. My issue is that I am looking for a function of the for $f(x,y)=c$ with $c$ a constant. I could not find in ...
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Model calibration with phase space data
Forgive me if this is answered elsewhere, I am new to Mathematica and this forum and have tried a number of search phrases to no avail. My question is very general but for example, suppose I throw a ...
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Finding the conditions for degenerate solutions to a cubic equation
I have a cubic equation (corresponding to the band structure of a physical system) given by w in the code below.
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Using ParametricNDSolveValue with initial conditions as parameters [duplicate]
Recently I've came across the command ParametricNDSolveValue, which allows the user to solve DEs with one or more parameters. I've tried setting
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Limitations of ParametricNDSolve family w.r.t objective functions
Observation:
I can see even for very simple modification in case of an scalar objective involving an definite integral in time ParametricNDSolve fails. Here is an ...
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How to plot a function whose constant parameters have associated uncertainties in Mathematica 8.0?
Let's assume I want to plot the function $f(x)=a + bx+ cx^{2}$, where experimentally known values of parameters $a, b$ and, $c$ are as follows:
$a=1.01 \pm 0.18$
$b=0.92 \pm 0.11$
$c=2.2 \pm 0.2$
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Eliminating the Parameter: Transform parametric equation to Cartesian equation and draw arrows along parametric growth
Hey guys I really could use some help on this calc 3 problem. I'm stuck on how to write the code for this problem:
a) Eliminate the parameter to find a Cartesian equation for a parametric curve.
b) ...
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Plotting knot torus
I'd like to plot together a torus and a knot on it, that is, closed curve wrapping around the torus, $m$ times around a circle and $n$ times around the other circle.
It will be used to explain ...
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Estimating parameters on system of differential equations
I am looking for some help estimating the parameters of a series of differential equations to assist fitting the experimental data I have collected.
The Problem:
The equations are based off of the ...
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Interpolating a ParametricFunction
Original domain of my independent variable t is 0 to 10 nanometers, but in Mathematica (as in most numerical software), it's good idea to solve differential ...
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Use ParametricNDSolve with Plotting
I am attempting to solve a differential equation of the form
$$ \frac{dx}{dt}=ax+by \\
\frac{dy}{dt}=cx $$ with parameters $0<a<1$ and $a,b,c \in \mathbb{R}$. I am able to use NDParametric ...
