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Chris717
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y intercept of a circle |
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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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Legendary Zidane
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re: y intercept of a circle |
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To find the y-intercept, simply put in x=0 in the equation and solve.
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Chris717
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re: y intercept of a circle |
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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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What Lies Beneath
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Rearrange, differentiate, substitute in LZ's numbers.
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Legendary Zidane
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re: y intercept of a circle |
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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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GangstaL
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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:
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Chris717
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re: y intercept of a circle |
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Thanks for the help guys. I got them right.
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Rabsh
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re: y intercept of a circle |
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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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Devastate
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Differentiation and integration at 15 sounds pretty early to me.
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Chris717
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I'm 16 at AS level. We haven't done differentiation yet, but i found another way to do it.
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