Re: General--Differential equation problem..
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- Subject: [mg66353] Re: General--Differential equation problem..
- From: Heinz Spindler <heinz at mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:34:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Hannover
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randomtalk at gmail.com wrote:
>hello, i was trying to solve a set of differential equations needed for a school project.. However, i'm completely new to mathematica 5.0, and i have downloaded trial, here is what i inputed into the software:
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>In[2]:=
>DSolve[{x'[s] == Cos[z], y'[s] == Sin[z], z'[s] == 1/r, r == 2}, {x, y, z}, s]
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>returns this error: DSolve::dvnoarg: The function z appears with no arguments.
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>Is there anything wrong with what i inputed? The differential equations came from this website: http://fy.chalmers.se/LISEBERG/eng/loop_pe.html
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>Try this:
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DSolve[{x'[s]==Cos[z[s]],y'[s]==]Sin[z[s]],z'[s]==1/2},{x[s],
y[s],z[s]},s]