Re: lists of variables
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- Subject: [mg58199] Re: [mg58156] lists of variables
- From: Pratik Desai <pdesai1 at umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:55:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Heath Gerhardt wrote:
>I need to make lists of variables, for example
>
>{t1,t2,t3}
>
>but have not been able to figure out how to make Mathematica do this.
>Tried using
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>Array[t,3]
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>which gives
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>{t[1],t[2],t[3]}
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>but then I don't know how to set the t[i]'s in expressions similar to
>
>F[t[1]_,t[2]_,t[3]_]:=Cos[t[1]+t[2]-t[3]]
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>thanks in advance
>Heath
>
>
>
Here is a somewhat different approach using Subscript
t = Table[Subscript[s, j], {j, 1, 3, 1}] // Total
Cos[t]
>>\!\(Cos[s\_1 + s\_2 + s\_3]\)
You can even assing values
Subscript[s,1]=30
Subscript[s,2]=0
Subscript[s,3]=90
Best regards,
Pratik
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Pratik Desai
Graduate Student
UMBC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 410 455 8134
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- From: Heath Gerhardt <heathgerhardt@hotmail.com>
- lists of variables