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Best answer by LucMeekes

Thank you.

I think it's a great honour to be named second in place after Christiaan Huygens.

Luc

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
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January 3, 2016

Hi Valery,

The right-sided asymptote is:

Provided you make sure that F is the point on the y-axis where your focus lies.

In your case F would be -10 (mm).

To get a two-sided asymptote, just replace x with sqrt(x^2).

This plot was made with dimensionless numbers, F= -3, n= sqrt(2).

Regards,

Luc

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ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IVAuthor
24-Ruby IV
January 4, 2016

Thanks, Luc.

Happy NY!

But I think about the red function, not black.

Val

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
January 4, 2016

Hi Valery,

The asymptote I gave IS about the y1 function, not the y2....

Note that for the black function, the asymptote goes through (0,-10mm), whereas the y1 asymptote goes through (0,-10/3) for your values of F=1 cm=10 mm and n=2 according to the function I provided: F/ (n+ 1)= -10/ 3.

Luc

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