It is mentioned in the lecture that Michaelis and Menten's equation is an hyperbola, but there isn't a proof, here it is:
The xy term is annoying, so we let x=X+Y and y=X−Y, this is a linear transformation that simply rotate and scales, so we have
Now we can see why it is a hyperbola - simply complete the square will lead us to the standard hyperbola.
Let x=[s] and y=v0 as we see in the graph. Let m=vmax and k=km to simplify notation. We have
y=mxk+x(k+x)y=mxky+xy=mx
The xy term is annoying, so we let x=X+Y and y=X−Y, this is a linear transformation that simply rotate and scales, so we have
k(X−Y)+(X+Y)(X−Y)=m(X+Y)kX−kY+X2−Y2=mX+mY
Now we can see why it is a hyperbola - simply complete the square will lead us to the standard hyperbola.
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