Re: solving for 2 angles
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- Subject: [mg89817] Re: solving for 2 angles
- From: Steven Siew <stevensiew2 at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
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I dont know what you are trying to find but you should first get rid of Sin and Cosine by turning them into exponential functions. eqn01 = J*Cos[az]*Sin[el] + K*Sin[az]*Sin[el] + L*Cos[el] == 0 eqn02 = M*Cos[az]*Sin[el] + N*Sin[az]*Sin[el] + P*Cos[el] == 0 eqn03 = TrigToExp[eqn01] eqn04 = TrigToExp[eqn02] soln01 = Solve[eqn03, el] eqn05 = eqn04 /. soln01 finalsolution=Solve[eqn05, az] It's much better if you put in all your assumptions at the very start with the form $Assumptions = And @@ {x > 0, y > 0, z > 0} Steven Siew