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MathsIsFun

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Derivative Plotter

I have made a Derivative Plotter

It plots the "derivative" by simply calculating successive points and working out the slope. I can't think of a simple phrase to say that ... "calculated slope"?

But a really cool feature is at the bottom where you get to plot a function in green to (hopefully) coincide with the "calculated slope".

Comments and Suggestions pretty please!

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bobbym

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Hi MIF;

It works well even getting  the correct plot for this tough one.

You could have calculated those points using a formula instead of the slope between two points. But if the speed is acceptable that way, why change?

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Jai Ganesh

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Hi MathsIsFun,

The Derivative Plotter is neat. Excellent work!

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Bob

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Re: Derivative Plotter

hi MathsIsFun

That's great and worked well for all I tried.

There was one odd thing that happened.  I suspect it's my laptop as I've had the odd thing happen with graphics before.  But I'll describe what happened anyway, in case you can shed any light.

If I slide the zoom control fully left, as I start to slide back towards the centre, the graphs (everything inside the function and the slope borders) vanish.  And stays that way unless I press the reset.  This doesn't happen for a slide right.

Bob

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Sounds like a glitch in the program ... will investigate, thanks.

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Derivative Plotter

New version 0.6, only minor changes, hopefully fixed the zoom bug that Bob found. (Use refresh!)

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anonimnystefy

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Re: Derivative Plotter

The graph of tan(sin(tan(cos(tan(x)))) and its derivative look cool!

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Hi;

e^(sin(x)) makes nice waves.

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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Re: Derivative Plotter

Yes, it has fixed the zoom.  Thanks. 

Bob

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Excellent.

e^(sin(x)) is quite nice to scroll back and forth on

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anonimnystefy

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Re: Derivative Plotter

Larger plot boxes and panning functionality would be nice...

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Derivative Plotter

You can pan by single click (re-centers image)

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anonimnystefy

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Re: Derivative Plotter

When I left click it gives me the selection tool so that when I let go of the mouse, it zooms into the area I selected.

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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Shrikharan

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Re: Derivative Plotter

I  am unable to use the derivative plotter  offline. I  copied the swf file from temporary internet file folder  and tried to  play it but only blank screen. Any ideas

Thanks

Shri