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Excellent! Symmetry again. What about the curves y=4-x^2 and y=(2x-3)^2? Or y^2=x and y=(x+10)^2? I've given this zero thought, but I... -
Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.@Gavran has an interesting way to solve problems of this type when the curves are to the second power. I thought I'd try his method on...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.I would like to give a big thank you to @anuttarasammyak , @pasmith , @Gavran , and @DaveE for their inputs to this thread. I really...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.@Gavran Very good. I think your Vieta calculation above might have come from Wolfram. My apologies if I am incorrect. When I...
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Analytical solution by using Vieta's substitution: ## \begin{align} &a^3-9a^2+21a-3=0\nonumber\\...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.@DaveE Excellent. In hindsight, your solution where you pointed out the inverted and translated symmetry of the two essentially...
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My approach relied on symmetry and geometrical reasoning with just a tiny bit of calculus. Since these two curves are translated and...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.Please see the two Edits added to post 16 above. I think they may be useful.
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.@Gavran Very good=Excellent. :) You have an interesting approach where you translated the first curve by ## (a,b) ## until it made...
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Let ## (x_1,y_1) ## be a point on the curve ## f(x)=4-x^2 ##, which is the closest point on the curve ## f(x) ## to the curve ##...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.Just a couple additional comments: I thought I did pretty well by getting a numerical solution by writing out the partial derivative...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.@pasmith I think it should read ##-2(x_1+x_2-3)=0 ##. Otherwise, yes, very good=excellent. :) and I think I see where he got the...
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Charles Link replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.Yes, sometime I'm going to need to try Vieta's substitution on this cubic and see if I can get the same answers that Wolfram got. :)...