Re: Re: DSolve question
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- Subject: [mg49164] Re: [mg49155] Re: DSolve question
- From: James Smith <jasmith at cim.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 03:33:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Starting a fresh session was the key to solving this problem. thanks to everyone who pointed it out. :-) -James On 5-Jul-04, at 4:54 AM, Bill Rowe wrote: > On 7/2/04 at 2:01 AM, jasmith at cim.mcgill.ca (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. > > DSolve[Derivative[1][y][x] == 2*a*x, y[x], x] > {{y[x] -> a*x^2 + C[1]}} > > DSolve[Derivative[1][x][t] == 2*a*t, x[t], t] > {{x[t] -> a*t^2 + C[1]}} > > $Version > "4.2 for Mac OS X (August 22, 2002)" > > As you can see, it seems to work fine for me. > > Here, all I did was copy and paste from your post to Mathematica in a > fresh session. > -- > To reply via email subtract one hundred and four > > James Andrew Smith PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering Ambulatory Robotics Lab McGill University Web: www.cim.mcgill.ca/~jasmith Phone: 514-398-8054
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