Re: DSolve question
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- Subject: [mg49138] Re: DSolve question
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 04:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
you must have somwhere in your notebook an assignment to x.
Regards
Jens
"James A. Smith" wrote:
>
> Being a Mathematica novice, I'm confused by an error generated when I
> modify the following differential equation example:
>
> Input 1: DSolve[y'[x] == 2 a x, y[x], x]
> Output 1: {{y[x] -> a x^2 + C[1]}}
>
> This is fine. But why does the following produce an error, since all I am
> doing is replacing the independent "x" variable with "t" and the
> dependent "y" variable with "x":
>
> Input 2: DSolve[x'[t] == 2 a t, x[t], t]
> (error) DSolve::dvnoarg: The function x appears with no arguments.
>
> As far as I can tell, I've only done a simple find-and-replace of the
> variable names.
>
> I looked up a related "dvnoarg" problem that appeared on the MathGroup
> archive (http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2003/Dec/msg00119.html)
> and performed the same fine-and-replace:
>
> Input 3: DSolve[y''[x] == ay'[x] + y[x], y[x], x]
> Input 4: DSolve[x''[t] == ax'[t] + x[t], x[t], t]
>
> Both of these seem to work out fine.
>
> I'm using Mathematica 4.2 (OS X)...
>
> Thank you,
>
> James Smith