Implicit Plotting of Planes in Three Dimensions -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

Implicit Plotting of Planes in Three Dimensions

Author

Jon Roberts

Organization:

Loreto College

Old MathSource #

0208-404

Revision date

1996-11-13

Description

These notebooks were developed to produce materials that would provide strong visual reinforcement of important concepts to students undertaking a first course in 3 dimensional linear algebra. Suitable for late secondary/early tertiary courses, there are two types of notebooks: examples of particular systems and animations of important concepts--very suitable and accessible with the MathReader program, and interactive notebooks for use with Mathematica where equations can be entered in implicit ax+by+cz==d form and then plotted. All notebooks have explanations and directions in text cells and are intended for interactive student use. The notebook used to produce the animations is much less straightforward, and has not been included here. Email the author at robertsj@ctel.com.au if interested.

Subjects

	Mathematics > Geometry > Solid Geometry
	Wolfram Technology > Programming > Graphing and Plotting

Keywords

Implicit, Planes, Linear, 3D, Systems

Downloads

2mvngpln.nb (991.2 KB) - Animated example showing the changing nature of the solution as a two plane system moves in space

2pln&sln.nb (5.5 KB) - Notebook for plotting 2 planes in space

3mvngpln.nb (1.9 MB) - Animated example showing the changing nature of the solution as a three plane system moves in space

3nnllinf.nb (362.1 KB) - Example showing 3 non-parallel planes meeting in a line

3nnllunq.nb (303.1 KB) - Example showing three planes intersecting at a point

3nnllunq.nb (303.1 KB) - Example showing 3 non-parallel planes meeting in pairs in 3 parallel lines

3plnpltr.nb (5.5 KB) - Notebook for plotting 3 planes in space

Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:

2mvngpln.ma (849.8 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

2pln&sln.ma (4.1 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

3mvngpln.ma (1.7 MB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

3nnllinf.ma (312.1 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

3nnllnul.ma (278.1 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

3nnllunq.ma (260.4 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

3plnpltr.ma (4.4 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older