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Nov 02, 09 at 6:02pm
y intercept of a circle

The equation of the circle is:

(x+3)2+(y-2)2=25

How do i work out where is cuts the y axis?


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Nov 02, 09 at 6:04pm
re: y intercept of a circle

To find the y-intercept, simply put in x=0 in the equation and solve.

In that case, at y=6 and y=-2




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Nov 02, 09 at 10:22pm
re: y intercept of a circle

Thanks for the help i understand it now.

The next one is asking how to find the gradient of the tangents to the circle at those points.

Any ideas?


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Nov 02, 09 at 11:54pm
re: y intercept of a circle

Rearrange, differentiate, substitute in LZ's numbers.



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re: y intercept of a circle

The main use of differentiation is to find the gradient of a tangent to a curve, which is a circle in this case. To find the gradient at a specific point, as WLB said, substitute the coordinates of the point in the general gradient you got from differentiation.


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Nov 03, 09 at 1:18pm
re: y intercept of a circle

As the above two comments suggested, the gradient can be found by writing the curve in terms of functions y = f(x) and differentiating those functions. You could also use implicit differentiation here, which is especially useful when it's difficult to rewrite the function explicitly. According to the chain rule:


d/dx[(x+3)2] + d/dx[(y-2)2] = d/dx[25]

2(x+3) + d/d(y-2)[(y-2)2]*d/dx[(y-2)] = 0

2(x+3) + 2(y-2)*d/dx[y] = 0


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Nov 03, 09 at 3:40pm
re: y intercept of a circle

Thanks for the help guys. I got them right.

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Nov 07, 09 at 9:55am
re: y intercept of a circle

I'm just curious but how old are you?

I can't ask in what grade you are, because the system is different here. I want to compare your educational system to mine.

i'm 17 years old and did differentiation/integration at 15, but did implicit differentiation only this year, if you want to know :/ we're a sucky country.


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Nov 07, 09 at 10:42pm
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Differentiation and integration at 15 sounds pretty early to me.



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Nov 08, 09 at 2:16am
re: y intercept of a circle

I'm 16 at AS level. We haven't done differentiation yet, but i found another way to do it.

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