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Boxcar Function

\begin{figure}\begin{center}\BoxedEPSF{Boxcar.epsf scaled 600}\end{center}\end{figure}


\begin{displaymath}
y=c[H(x-a)-H(x-b)],
\end{displaymath}

where $H(x)$ is the Heaviside Step Function.


References

von Seggern, D. CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 324, 1993.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26