Math Problem Solver

Imagine you are an engineer working on a project involving the deformation of a rectangular metal sheet under stress.

The stress distribution on the metal sheet can be described by a function z(x,y) which depends on the coordinates x

and y, and on two parameters a,b that characterize the stress distribution. The stress distribution function is given by z

=a

2x + b

2y +ab. Your goal is to derive a partial differential equation that describes the stress distribution without explicitly depending on the

parameters a and b.