{"id":382,"date":"2019-07-15T22:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymakercollegealgebracorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-to-systems-of-nonlinear-equations-and-inequalities\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:43:30","slug":"introduction-to-systems-of-nonlinear-equations-and-inequalities","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ntcc-collegealgebracorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-to-systems-of-nonlinear-equations-and-inequalities\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Systems of Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities","rendered":"Introduction to Systems of Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities"},"content":{"raw":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Use various techniques to solve systems of\u00a0nonlinear equations<\/h2>\r\nHalley\u2019s Comet\u00a0orbits the sun about once every 75 years. Its path can be considered to be a very elongated ellipse. Other comets follow similar paths in space. These orbital paths can be studied using systems of equations. These systems, however, are different from the ones we considered in the previous section because the equations are not linear.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\"]\"A Halley\u2019s Comet (credit: \"NASA Blueshift\"\/Flickr)[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn this section we will consider the intersection of a parabola and a line, a circle and a line, and a circle and an ellipse. The methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations are similar to those for linear equations.","rendered":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Use various techniques to solve systems of\u00a0nonlinear equations<\/h2>\n

Halley\u2019s Comet\u00a0orbits the sun about once every 75 years. Its path can be considered to be a very elongated ellipse. Other comets follow similar paths in space. These orbital paths can be studied using systems of equations. These systems, however, are different from the ones we considered in the previous section because the equations are not linear.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Halley\u2019s Comet (credit: “NASA Blueshift”\/Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In this section we will consider the intersection of a parabola and a line, a circle and a line, and a circle and an ellipse. The methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations are similar to those for linear equations.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t

Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
CC licensed content, Original<\/div>