Re: Re: Re: Condition/constraint problem
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- Subject: [mg40984] Re: [mg40976] Re: [mg40938] Re: Condition/constraint problem
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 03:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
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I forgot to say one (rather obvious) thing so just for the sake of completeness: the reason for the difference is, of course, that the first derivative is computed numerically while the second symbolically and the value specified for t is substituted into the symbolic expression. As Jens correctly pointed out, Mathematica can't compute the derivative of the first function symbolically and won't return any value if specify an exact number (like 2) for the value where the you want the derivative to be computed. Anyway, my point was that there is no bug here. Andrzej Kozlowski Yokohama, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/ On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 07:47 pm, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > This seems to be just an accuracy problem due to the very rapidly > oscillating nature of the function. You need much more accurate input, > and even then the answers won't be exactly the same: > > In[1]:= > vx1[t_] := 3/2000 + (3*Sin[70*t])/2500 /; t < 5 > > In[2]:= > vx2[t_] := 3/2000 + (3*Sin[70*t])/2500 > > In[3]:= > Derivative[1][vx1][2.`50] > > Out[3]= > -0.016616340216276107118073957504289560620917139256026603482\ > 40545`46.5497 > > In[4]:= > Derivative[1][vx2][2.`50] > > Out[4]= > -0.016616340216358530300150292495099072037728048646002646485\ > 71143`47.1588 > > > Andrzej Kozlowski > Yokohama, Japan > http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ > http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/ > > > On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 04:26 pm, Bobby Treat wrote: > >> Your explanation implies there IS no value for vx1'[t], but >> Mathematica >> does compute one, when t is numeric. It's simply wrong. >> >> vx1[t_] := 0.0015 + 0.0012 Sin[70 t] /; t < 5 >> vx2[t_] := 0.0015 + 0.0012 Sin[70 t] >> vx1'[2.] >> vx2'[2.] >> >> 0.00793433 >> -0.0166163 >> >> Bobby >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >> Subject: [mg40984] [mg40976] [mg40938] Re: Condition/constraint problem >> >> Hi, >> >> der derivative is complete right, since >> Condition[] has no derivative >> >> Dt[vx1[t]] evaluates to vx1'[t] >> >> until you can tell Mathematica how to >> find out >> a) what the function value of vx1[t] for t>5 may be >> b) to compute the derivative for t==5 >> c) determine when the symbol t in vx1[t] may be >5 >> >> >> Regards >> Jens >> Bamboo wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I find a problem and don't know why. The input is as following. >>> If a condiction(constraint) is set to the function, vx1[t], >>> the derivative of vx1[t] is worng (fin1 is not equal to fin2). >>> Any help welcome. >>> >>> vx1[t_] : = 0.0015 + 0.0012 Sin[70 t] /; t < 5 >>> vx2[t_] : = 0.0015 + 0.0012 Sin[70 t] >>> fin1 = Dt[vx1[t], t] >>> fin2 = Dt[vx2[t], t] >>> Plot[fin1, {t, 0, 2}] >>> Plot[fin2, {t, 0, 2}] >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bamboo >> >> >> > >