Re: Finding only the real roots
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- Subject: [mg114352] Re: Finding only the real roots
- From: Equilib <petterbe at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 05:37:23 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Alexi,
Thanks a lot for your answer - it works great! (for some strange
reason I didn't see your reply until now).
A short follow -up.
Since the solution will for some specifications (c and g) will not be
real numbers, I cannot plot it.
Is there some elegant way to only get the real numbers so that it is
possible to plot the output?
I tried using Reduce[Manipulate[ Solve[1/2 + c + g (1 - p) + Sqrt[c +
p*g - 1] == 0, p], {c, 0, 1}, {g, 0, 1}], p, Reals] and some similar
commands, but that did not work
Best,
Petter
On 5 Nov, 11:13, Alexei Boulbitch <alexei.boulbi... at iee.lu> wrote:
> Hi, Peter,
>
> All your questions have simple answers, but first your should write down =
correct Mathematica expressions.
>
> NSolve, rather than Nsolve, Sqrt, rather than root and [] at Sqrt, rather=
than () at root.
>
> You will hardly move further without learning few basic things about Math=
ematica, so do it.
>
> In particular,
> NSolve[1/2 + c + g (1 - p) + Sqrt[c + p*g - 1] == 0, p]
>
> {{p -> (0.125 (-1. (-8. - 8. c - 8. g) g -
> 11.3137 Sqrt[-0.125 g^2 + 1. c g^2 + 0.5 g^3]))/g^2}, {p -=
> (
> 0.125 (-1. (-8. - 8. c - 8. g) g +
> 11.3137 Sqrt[-0.125 g^2 + 1. c g^2 + 0.5 g^3]))/g^2}}
>
> but I would do
>
> Solve[1/2 + c + g (1 - p) + Sqrt[c + p*g - 1] == 0, p]
>
> {{p -> (2 g + 2 c g + 2 g^2 - Sqrt[-g^2 + 8 c g^2 + 4 g^3])/(
> 2 g^2)}, {p -> (
> 2 g + 2 c g + 2 g^2 + Sqrt[-g^2 + 8 c g^2 + 4 g^3])/(2 g^2)}}
>
> instead. Also Manipulate works. Try this for instance:
>
> Manipulate[
> Solve[1/2 + c + g (1 - p) + Sqrt[c + p*g - 1] == 0, p], {c, 0,
> 1}, {g, 0, 1}]
>
> Have fun, Alexei
>
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to numerically evaluate a function using NSolve, for
> example
> Nsolve[1/2+c+g(1-p)+root(c+p*g-1)==0,p] where my two variables g and =
c
> are both in the interval [0,1]. But, since the root is not always
> positive I do not get a solution to NSolve. The idea was therefore to
> first define the positive roots and then to do NSolve.
>
> My questions are therefore;
> 1) Is this the best approach, or are there more direct ways?
> 2) What should I do to only get the real roots?
> 3) If I first solve the root, and then use NSolve, will I still be
> able to use functions such as Manipulate on the NSolve solution?
>
> Best,Petter
>
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