Re: Reasonable integration speed? (24 hrs and counting)
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- Subject: [mg68068] Re: Reasonable integration speed? (24 hrs and counting)
- From: axlq at spamcop.net (axlq)
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <e9q95s$7o9$1 at smc.vnet.net>, ben <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com> wrote: >My version of Mathematica cant solve this integral (it gets returned >unevaluated), This happens for me too if I don't input the first part of the problem which defines f[x]: >> In[1]:= f[x] = Sqrt[a^2+(q-x)^2] And then >> In[2]:= Integrate[Cos[(2*n + 1)*Pi*x/d]* >> (Exp[-I*k*f[x]]/(4*Pi*f[x]^5)*((1 + I*k*f[x])*(2*f[x]^2 - 3*a^2) >> + (k*a*f[x])^2) * I*d/(2*Pi* w) + p), {x, -d/2, d/2}] Defining f[x], or substituting the expression for f[x] into the integral, results in mathematica not returning a result in 2 days. I suspect it can only be solved numerically, given specific values for all the constants. -A