Re: question
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15631] Re: question
- From: "Atul Sharma" <mdsa at musica.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:28:31 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
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Engineers:
solution=DSolve[y''[t]+w^2 y[t]==0,y[t],t]
Notice that DSolve returns a replacement rule, and the two undetermined
constants are called C[1] and C[2]. Thus the variable "solution" is a
replacement rule. To get y[t] itself, we need to ask for
y[t]/.solution. The result has been called "y".
y=y[t]/.solution
Notice that we still have a pair of braces around "y". We can remove
them by picking off just the first part of "y".
y=y[[1]]
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Atul Sharma MD, FRCP(C)
Pediatric Nephrologist,
McGill University/Montreal Children's Hospital 2300 Tupper, Montreal,
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email: mdsa at musica.mcgill.ca
Alice M. Dean wrote in message <78pa6k$cn1 at smc.vnet.net>...
>Hi, I was given this address by a colleague, who said you could quickly
>answer what I think is a very simple question. After I evaluate the
>following in mathematica,
>
>DSolve[{P'[t]==0.031P[t], P[0]==5.3}, P[t],t]
>
>I get a result which is essentially: {{P[t] -> 5.3 E ^(0.031t)}}
>
>inside two sets of curly brackets.
>
>I would now like to compute P[10], P[100], etc. Is there a reasonable
>way to do this? Thanks, Alice Dean
>
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