Vector-valued functions?

Can I please have some help with part (a) and hopefully it will naturally lead onto part (b). I'm pretty stuck with what they are asking. I've done a small amount of working/doodling near the bottom of the picture.

Many thanks,

Jamie

Reply 1

nerak99

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Here may be a clue. The first function is the set of spheres centre 0,0,0 and the second is a set of planes and in the case of the vector given, the sphere has radius sqrt(8) and the plane is the plane at 45 degrees where the line y=x extends into R3.

The intersection is a circle also inclined at 45degrees where the plane intersects the sphere.

All the points on this circle have the desired property that f1=8 and x-y =0

Warning, I have not done much work recently on this kind of question but no one else replied

Reply 2

Jamie S

OP

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Original post by nerak99

Here may be a clue. The first function is the set of spheres centre 0,0,0 and the second is a set of planes and in the case of the vector given, the sphere has radius sqrt(8) and the plane is the plane at 45 degrees where the line y=x extends into R3.

The intersection is a circle also inclined at 45degrees where the plane intersects the sphere.

All the points on this circle have the desired property that f1=8 and x-y =0

Warning, I have not done much work recently on this kind of question but no one else replied

So this implies about the shape of the intersection of these functions, but what for finding the points that satisfy them?

Reply 3

nerak99

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I think that all that is wanted is a statement that the points on this inclined circle are the set of points where the vector function has the desired property of f1=8 and f2 =0.

I think that part b is a matrix where the elements map the various derivatives you need for the gradient of a vector function.

As I said, I rarely visit this stuff but I guess the normal gurus are not around.

Reply 4

TeeEm

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Original post by Jamie S

So this implies about the shape of the intersection of these functions, but what for finding the points that satisfy them?

well well well ...

Shall I contribute?
I think not ....

Reply 5

Jamie S

OP

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I think there is more to part a?

OP

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Original post by Jamie S

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nerak99 Has provided the graphical situation.

There may be more to part a) but:

[br]2x^{2} + z^{2} = 8,[br]

is of a particular graph (a particular conic section (http://math2.org/math/algebra/conics.htm )).

(Formula from the attachment in your original post).

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 8

Gregorius

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Original post by Jamie S

Can I please have some help with part (a) and hopefully it will naturally lead onto part (b).

I think that others have already disposed of part (a). Part (b) appears to be independent of part (a) and just requires you to write down the matirix of partial derivatives.

Reply 9

nerak99

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In other words, all the points on that ' circle' (2x^2+z^2=8 is not a circle but an ellipse parallel to the y axis! which I can't picture from the functions! but certainly a conic) satisfy the requirements of part a.

I think that this is the end of it. Following that, part b flows from the definition of a derivative of a factor valued function, which, so far as I can tell, is a matrix mapping the elements of the function and their partial derivatives.

Edit: I think the function 2x^2+z^2 = 8 is a projection of the circle onto the z-x plane.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 10

nerak99

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I think the set of points is a circle in 3D and the equation 2x^2+z^2=8 is a projection of the circle onto one plane. We are after a circle that lies on the plane defined by the line x=y projected in the z direction intersecting the sphere of radius

\sqrt 8

centre (0, 0, 0).

As I said above, my work on vector defined functions is pretty thin and possibly the curve needs to be defined as a vector defined function rather than the following. However, for what it is worth, to define an inclined circle the parametric form uses a unit vector perpendicular to the plane of the circle