.. Objectives

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.. A - Students and teachers from Science and engineering backgrounds

   B -

   C - 

   D - 

.. Prerequisites

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..   1. Getting started with lists

.. Author              : Nishanth Amuluru

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   External Reviewer   :

   Checklist OK?       : <put date stamp here, if OK> [2010-10-05]

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Hello friends, welcome to the tutorial on "Plotting using SAGE".

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In this tutorial we shall look at 

 * 2D plotting in SAGE

 * 3D plotting in SAGE

We shall first create a symbolic variable ``x``

::

    x = var('x')

We shall plot the function ``sin(x) - cos(x) ^ 2`` in the range (-5, 5).

::

    plot(sin(x) - cos(x) ^ 2, (x, -5, 5))

As we can see, the plot is shown.

``plot`` command takes the symbolic function as the first argument and the

range as the second argument.

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%% 1 %% Define a variable ``y`` and plot the function ``y^2 + 5y - 7`` in the

        range (-3, 3)

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    y = var('y')

    plot(y^2 + 5*y -7, (y, -3, 3))

We have seen that plot command plots the given function on a linear range.

What if the x and y values are functions of another variable.

For instance, lets plot the trajectory of a projectile.

A projectile was thrown at 50 m/s^2 and at an angle of 45 degrees from the 

ground. We shall plot the trajectory of the particle for 5 seconds.

These types of plots can be drawn using the parametric_plot function.

We first define the time variable.

::

    t = var('t')

Then we define the x and y as functions of t.

::

    f_x = 50 * cos(pi/4)

    f_y = 50 * sin(pi/4) * t - 1/2 * 9.81 * t^2 )

We then call the ``parametric_plot`` function as

::

    parametric_plot((f_x, f_y), (t, 0, 5))

And we can see the trajectory of the projectile.

The ``parametric_plot`` funciton takes a tuple of two functions as the first

argument and the range over which the independent variable varies as the second

argument.

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%% 2 %% A particle is thrown into the air at 10 m/s^2 and at angle of 60 degrees

        from the top of a 100 m tower. Plot the trajectory of the particle.

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    t = var('t')

    f_x = 10 * cos(pi/3) * t

    f_y = 100 + 10 * sin(pi/3) * t - 1/2 * 9.81 * t^2

    parametric_plot((f_x, f_y), (t,0,5))

Now we shall look at how to plot a set of points.

We have the ``line`` function to acheive this.

We shall plot sin(x) at few points and join them.

First we need the set of points.

::

    points = [ (x, sin(x)) for x in srange(-2*float(pi), 2*float(pi), 0.75) ]

``srange`` takes a start, a stop and a step argument and returns a list of

point. We generate list of tuples in which the first value is ``x`` and second

is ``sin(x)``.

::

    line(points)

plots the points and joins them with a line.

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%% 3 %% Plot the cosine function using line function.

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    points = [ (x, cos(x)) for x in srange(-2*float(pi), 2*float(pi), 0.75) ]

    line(points)

The ``line`` function behaves like the plot command in matplotlib. The

difference is that ``plot`` command takes two sequences while line command

expects a sequence of co-ordinates.

As we can see, the axes limits are set by SAGE. Often we would want to set them

ourselves. Moreover, the plot is shown here since the last command that is

executed produces a plot. 

Let us try this example

::

    plot(cos(x), (x,0,2*pi))

    # Does the plot show up??

As we can see here, the plot is not shown since the last command does not

produce a plot.

The actual way of showing a plot is to use the ``show`` command.

::

    p1 = plot(cos(x), (x,0,2*pi))

    show(p1)

    # What happens now??

As we can see the plot is shown since we used it with ``show`` command.

``show`` command is also used set the axes limits.

::

    p1 = plot(cos(x), (x,0,2*pi))

    show(p1, xmin=0, xmax=2*pi, ymin=-1.2, ymax=1.2)

As we can see, we just have to pass the right keyword arguments to the ``show``

command to set the axes limits.

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%% 4 %% Plot the cosine function in the range (-2pi, 2pi) and set the x-axis

        limits to (-5, 5) and y-axis limits to (-2, 2) respectively.

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    p1 = plot(cos(x), (x, 0, 2*pi))

    show(p1, xmin=-5, xmax=5, ymin=-2, ymax=2)

The ``show`` command can also be used to show multiple plots.

::

    p1 = plot(cos(x), (x, 0, 2*pi))

    p2 = plot(sin(x), (x, 0, 2*pi))

    show(p1+p2)

As we can see, we can add the plots and use them in the ``show`` command.

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%% 5 %% Plot sin(x) and sin(2*x) in the range (0, 2pi)

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    p1 = plot(sin(x), (x, 0, 2*pi))

    p2 = plot(sin(2*x), (x, 0, 2*pi))

    show(p1+p2)

Now we shall look at 3D plotting in SAGE.

We have the ``plot3d`` function that takes a function in terms of two 

independent variables and the range over which they vary.

::

    x, y = var('x y')

    plot3d(x^2 + y^2, (x, 0, 2), (y, 0, 2))

We get a 3D plot which can be rotated and zoomed using the mouse.

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%% 6 %% Plot the function sin(x)^2 + cos(y)^2 for x in range (0,2) and y in

        range (-2, 2)

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    x, y = var("x y")

    plot3d( sin(x)^2 + cos(y)^2, (x, 0, 2), (y, -2, 2))

``parametric_plot3d`` function plots the surface in which x, y and z are

functions of another variable.

::

   u, v = var("u v")

   f_x = u

   f_y = v

   f_z = u^2 + v^2

   parametric_plot3d((f_x, f_y, f_z), (u, 0, 2), (v, 0, 2))

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This brings us to the end of the tutorial.

we have learnt

 * How to draw 2D plots using plot comand

 * How to use the parametric_plot and line functions

 * How to use show command for multiple plots and setting axes limits

 * How to draw 3D plots

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#[Nishanth]: Will add this line after all of us fix on one.

This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project, NME ICT, MHRD India

Hope you have enjoyed and found it useful.

Thankyou