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Mathematical Expression Editor
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Objectives:
1.
Be comfortable graphing generalized cylinders and spheres.
2.
Be able to identify the center and radius of a sphere from a given
equation.
Recap Video
You can watch watch the following video which recaps the ideas of the section
which you saw in lecture.
Example Videos
The following videos will work through examples of graphing 3D shapes.
Sketch the graph of in .
Find the center and radius of the sphere .
Problems
Here are some problems for you to practice.
What does the graph of look
like?
Which of the following is the equation of a sphere with center and radius ?
In standard form, the equation is .
The sphere has center and radius .
Is the origin on the sphere?
Now try sketching on a sheet of paper.
On your own piece of paper,
sketch the cylinder . The answer is in the hint.
The graph is
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Start typing the name of a mathematical function to automatically insert it.
(For example, "sqrt" for root, "mat" for matrix, or "defi" for definite integral.)