// Scott DeRuiter 7/2/2002
// Parabola.java
// A Parabola class that can be used by the user to find
// some information about a parabola.
public class Parabola
{
private double a, b, c;
public Parabola ( double atemp, double btemp, double ctemp )
{
a = atemp;
b = btemp;
c = ctemp;
}
public double Discriminant ( )
{
return ( b * b - 4.0 * a * c );
}
public double VertexX ( )
{
return ( -b / ( 2 * a ) );
}
public double VertexY ( )
{
double vertx = VertexX ( );
return ( a * vertx * vertx + b * vertx + c );
}
public double FunctionValue ( double x )
{
return ( a * x * x + b * x + c );
}
}
// Scott DeRuiter 7/2/2002
// ParabolaTest.java
// A client class for the Parabola class, to find some
// info about a parabola
// 7/15/2011 - Greenstein: Changed TextReader to Scanner
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ParabolaTest
{
public static void main ( String [] args )
{
Parabola first = new Parabola ( 1.0, -1.0, -6.0 );
Parabola second = new Parabola ( 5.0, -3.0, 2.1 );
double xval;
Scanner input = new Scanner ( System.in );
System.out.print ( "\n\nEnter an x value to plug in -> " );
xval = input.nextDouble ( );
System.out.print ( "\nDiscriminant for first: " );
System.out.println ( Format.right ( first.Discriminant ( ), 18, 3 ) );
System.out.print ( "\nVertex for the first : " );
System.out.print ( "( " + Format.right ( first.VertexX ( ), 6, 3 ) );
System.out.println ( ", " + Format.right ( first.VertexY ( ), 6, 3 ) + " )" );
System.out.print ( "\nThe first function value at " + Format.right ( xval, 6, 3 ) );
System.out.println ( " is " + Format.right ( first.FunctionValue ( xval ), 6, 3 ) );
System.out.print ( "\nDiscriminant for second: " );
System.out.println ( Format.right ( second.Discriminant ( ), 18, 3 ) );
System.out.print ( "\nVertex for the second : " );
System.out.print ( "( " + Format.right ( second.VertexX ( ), 6, 3 ) );
System.out.println ( ", " + Format.right ( second.VertexY ( ), 6, 3 ) + " )" );
System.out.print ( "\nThe second function value at " + Format.right ( xval, 6, 3 ) );
System.out.println ( " is " + Format.right ( second.FunctionValue ( xval ), 6, 3 ) );
}
}
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