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Re: FindRoot[] with mixed complex and real variables?

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  • Subject: [mg79604] Re: FindRoot[] with mixed complex and real variables?
  • From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Stanford University
  • References: <f8kf7m$lv$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <f8kf7m$lv$1 at smc.vnet.net>, chuck009 <dmilioto at comcast.com> 
wrote:

> AES, seems to me you have more unknowns than equations.  Don't have a third 
> one do you?  

Yes -- besides the two initial complex-valued equations, there are the 
two real constraints:   Re[w]==0  and  Re[g]==(a fixed & stated value).  

So, there's enough info to solve the problem, and I can indeed get 
answers in other ways.  My problem is how to get this info into 
FindRoot[].



> What I usually do when using FindRoot is to first make some 
> plots of the real and imaginary components to get a ball-park figure for the 
> zero, say use the "get graphics coordinate" to get it close, then feed in 
> that value into FindRoot.


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