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Delayed Evaluation of NDSolve Arguments

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  • Subject: [mg62945] Delayed Evaluation of NDSolve Arguments
  • From: "ben" <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 05:10:26 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear All,

is there a way to prevent NDSolve to evaluate its arguments
right on the spot?

Inside my differential equation

x'[t]=F[x[t],t,f[x[t],t]],

I want to use a function f[x,t] which
makes only sense, when called with
numeric arguments.
So everything would be fine, if NDSolve
would evaluate the differential equation
at each time step.
However, the differential equation is only
evaluated once at the beginning, and
then only numerical values are plugged
into the evaluated equation at each time step.

Below is a baby example of my problem

f[t_]:=If[NumericQ[t],1,0];

sol=NDSolve[{x'[t]==f[t],x[0]==0},x[t],{t,0,1}];

x[t]/.sol[[1]]
0. 
(* I want x[t]=t ! *)

Any help would be appreciated
Benjamin


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