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, proving that it solves the one-dimensional wave equation. Equivalently its two summands are oppositely travelling profiles, as in D'Alembert's formula.

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Factorization gives

y = (x - 2)^{2} (x + 1)

, so the zeros are

x = - 1

and

x = 2

, with a double root at two. The derivatives are

y^{'} = 3 x (x - 2)

and

y^{''} = 6 (x - 1)

. Thus

local maximum (0, 4), local minimum (2, 0), inflection point (1, 2) .

(1)

The second derivative changes sign at one, confirming the inflection point. The curve rises from

- \infty

, crosses at

- 1

, reaches its local maximum, falls to touch the axis at two, then rises to

+ \infty

. Neither local extremum is a global extremum on the whole real line.

Figure 1.
Zeros, two stationary points and an inflection point of the cubic
. **Details**.

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Zero is an eigenvalue exactly when the determinant vanishes. Here

det A = 1 - α^{2}

, so

α = 1 or α = - 1.

(1)

For either value the other eigenvalue is two, as follows from the trace.

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The gradients are

\nabla f = (1, 1, 1)

and

\nabla g = (2 x, 2 y, 2 z)

. Equality of their three components therefore gives the unique point

(x, y, z) = (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) .

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Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.

Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!

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Intro to OurBigBook

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- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
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OurBigBook Web topics demo
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This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
Figure 2.
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. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
Video 3.
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OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
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