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Plot velocity and acceleration vectors of a space curve

asked 2020-11-20 20:05:05 +0100

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updated 2020-11-20 21:10:22 +0100

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I'm having trouble plotting the velocity and acceleration vectors of the following space curve (r3).

May anyone help guide me in the right direction to solve this problem?

var('t')
r3(t) = (cos(t/2), sin(t), t/6)
v3 = diff(r3(t),t)
a3 = diff(v3,t)
curve3 = parametric_plot3d(r3(t),(t,0,4*pi),thickness=0.5)
velvecs = Graphics()
accvecs = Graphics()
for k in range(9):
    velvecs += arrow(r3(k*pi/2),r3(k*pi/2)+v3(k*pi/2),color='red') #Line 26
    accvecs += arrow(r3(k*pi/2),r3(k*pi/2)+a3(k*pi/2),color='blue')
show(velvecs+accvecs+curve3,axes=False)
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answered 2020-11-20 23:01:09 +0100

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updated 2020-11-20 23:03:31 +0100

The problem is that calling v3(k*pi/2) will try to call each component of v3 with that positional argument, but the last component of v3 is 1/6, so calling it with a positional argument is not supported. You can call it with a keyword argument instead, by using v3(t=k*pi/2). To be even more explicit, you can write v3.subs(t=k*pi/2). Similarly for a3.

Or, what you probably meant to do: make v3 callable too:

v3 = diff(r3,t)
a3 = diff(v3,t)

With both approaches, your code works:

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