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Re: How do I get a DSolve'd function

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  • Subject: [mg54395] Re: How do I get a DSolve'd function
  • From: Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:07:54 -0500 (EST)
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Skirmantas wrote:
> I hope this is the last question for now.
> 
> I can solve a differential equation and plot it by doing something
> like this:
> 
> sol=DSolve[{f'[x]==-3f[x],f[0]==10},f,x]
> Plot[f/.sol,{x,0,10}]
This will not work.
> 
> But how do I get the function f[x] itself? I want to be able to input
> f[x] and get its definition. Or do Plot[f[x],{x,0,10}]. Or define
> y[x_]:=f[x]^2.
> 
> f[x]/.sol or f[x_]:=f[x]/.sol or f[x_]:=sol[[n,n,n]] do not work.
> 
> What if the solution is a function with many variables, say u[x,y,z]?
> What's the correct way to "get" it?  
> 
Try the usual way for ReplaceAll:

f=f/.sol

and now you can use f like any other function.

Oh, in the multivariate case, you should use u instaed of f:

u=u/.sol

-- 
Peter Pein
Berlin


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