Re: Re: can anyone solve this equation?
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- Subject: [mg58187] Re: [mg58159] Re: can anyone solve this equation?
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:03:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes, I was just wondering about how you were able to visualize the
equation, breaking it into appropriate constants. I will search the
archives and see if anyone has come up with a general method for
braking things into constants. (something like:
SubstituteConstants[expr,Nonconstants->{a,b,e}], where the result
would be the expression and a list of replacement rules that could be
used to "restore" the original expression)
I (think I) once ran into an equation/problem where the answer was a
product log of a constant, but if that constant was given to
Mathematica as the addition of two other constants, it would return
the expression unsolved.
On 6/20/05, Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> >I agree that subscripted expressions look better. However, I run into
> >many instances where Mathematica does not treat subscripted variables
> >as symbols.
>
> Symbolize in Utilities`Notation` is designed to do exactly that (and
> in some display formats, such as InputForm, it automatically actually
> uses \[UnderBracket] anyway).
>
> >Notation commands with appropriate pattern matching can
> >take care of converting the unbracketed expressions to more easily
> >readable ones, but I didn't want to complicate the situation any more
> >than it already was.
>
> Indeed -- to even read and digest your expression I used
> pattern-matching several times to reduce the expression to something
> more manageable.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> >Sincere thanks to both Paul and Pratik for the solutions; I will be
> >testing them shortly.
> >
> >On 6/20/05, Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> >> In article <d8rhj9$i7n$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
> >> Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can anyone solve the following equation (for theta_4)?
> >>
> >> Essentially, you are solving the equation
> >>
> >> FullSimplify[Solve[a - Cos[t] - Sqrt[R^2 - Sin[t]^2] == x, t]]
> >>
> >> where x = 2 n rhs/d is a constant multiple of your right-hand side, rhs,
> >> t is theta_4, and a = R + 2/(c - 1) + 1. This is, of course, trivial. I
> >> expect that Solve struggles with your expression because of the length
> >> and/or complexity of rhs.
> >>
> >> To me, using \[UnderBracket] makes your input expression unreadable.
> >> Only an engineer would work with such expressions!
> >>
> >> Personally, I like using subscripted expressions in Mathematica. They
> >> are not without their difficulties and subtleties -- but are preferable
> >> to using \[UnderBracket].
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >Chris Chiasson
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>
>
>
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