Re: Rearrange equation
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- Subject: [mg111585] Re: Rearrange equation
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:57:39 -0400 (EDT)
On 8/5/10 at 7:32 AM, tonja.krueger at web.de (Tonja Krueger) wrote: >I want to rearrange the equation below so that it would look like: >x-> .... I tried: >Solve[G==-(Sqrt[\[Pi]/2]*Erfc[x]*(-\[Mu]+Log[x]))/(2*Sqrt[\[Pi]]*\[ >Sigma]),x] But then I got the error message: Solve::tdep: The >equations appear to involve the variables to be solved for in an >essentially non-algebraic way. Is there a way to solve the equation? There is no closed form symbolic solution for that equation. You can find numeric solutions using FindRoot after given G, \[Mu] and \[Sigma] numeric values. For example: In[6]:= FindRoot[1 + Erfc[x] Log[x]/(2 Sqrt[2]), {x, .001, 10}] Out[6]= {x->0.0499295} Here, I've set G = \[Sigma] = 1 and \[Mu] = 0