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Re: NDSolve[]

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  • Subject: [mg123538] Re: NDSolve[]
  • From: Stephen Wandzura <smwandzura at hrl.com>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:30:44 -0500 (EST)
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  • Reply-to: Stephen Michael Wandzura <wandzura at mac.com>

You are confusing Derivative[] with D[].


> Subject: NDSolve[]
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> 
> For the same equations, why does the first method as following give
> the error but the other one give the desired result?
> 
> NDSolve[{Derivative[x[t], t] == -y[t] - x[t]^2,
> Derivative[y[t], t] == 2*x[t] - y[t], x[0] == y[0] == 1}, {x,
> y}, {t, 10}]
> 
> NDSolve[{x'[t] == -y[t] - x[t]^2, y'[t] == 2*x[t] - y[t],
> x[0] == y[0] == 1}, {x, y}, {t, 10}]
> 




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