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Another plea for help...

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  • Subject: [mg39161] Another plea for help...
  • From: "1.156" <rob at piovere.com>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:57:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'd sure like to find out how to clean up a process I do a lot.  Namely, get
a solution to some set of equations and then plot the result. For example,
I recently did

result = Solve[{a == 1/(1/r2 + 1/50), 50 == 1/(1/(a + r1) + 1/r2)}, r1, a]

This gives {{r1 -> (a function of r2)  }}

Then, I plot it by
Plot[ (this function of r2), {r2, startvalue, stopvalue}]

where I carefully type in this function.  I feel sure you Mathematica pros
don't have to do that so I have made several feeble attempts to automate
this over the years. They fail because I still don't have a clue how Mathematica works.

Here's my last attempt:
Plot[ result /. %]
Mathematica just hisses and prints out tons of error messages, none of which mean
a thing to me.

Surely there is a way to get this plot without having to type the Solve[] result
into Plot[].  Any hints would be appreciated, as usual.

Rob


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