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Old 03-13-2009, 07:08 PM
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Re: Math: Calculus

To be honest, I'm confused about what's confusing you, so I don't know how much help I can be

Let's consider a set of 15 ordered pairs:
(0,2) (1,2) (2,2)
(0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
(0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
(0,-1) (1,-1) (2, -1)
(0,-2) (1,-2) (2,-2)

Given y'=slope=2y, we note the slope at these points:
4 4 4
2 2 2
0 0 0
-2 -2 -2
-4 -4 -4

(Poorly) graphically represented, with slopes (4,2,0,-2,-4) given (/,↗,-, ↘,\):

Code:
 2  / / /
 1  ↗ ↗ ↗
 0  - - -
-1  ↘ ↘ ↘
-2  \ \ \ 

    0 1 2
Over more points, we see trends comparable to the graphs of y=1*e^2x, y=0*e^2x, and y=-1*e^2x. In fact the general solution to y'=2y is y=C*e^2x.
Hope this helps...
Last Edited by mmmmm_PIE; 03-13-2009 at 07:10 PM. Reason: Reply With Quote
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