Re: changing variable in an equation
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- Subject: [mg116393] Re: changing variable in an equation
- From: "J and B" <noslowski at comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:06:12 -0500 (EST)
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Updating my question. Those that have responded have requested further information. I hope this will help. First of all, thanks to those that have helped me with this problem. Please let me explain what is going on. I am the same person that asked about phase portraits. I am writing a text book using Mathematica to describe how neurons work. I ran across the book that I describe below. I knew that the way I was describing how neurons are working was wrong, but I had no modern books and so on. I am disabled and home bound. I thought the book that I found is a gold mine for me, but it is very hard for me to follow, due to his manner of writing which is more up to date than anything that I am use to. So I am like a kid in a class room again, trying to understand what the author is talking about. I need to be able to do what he does with another system but with Mathematica. Due to medical problems, I know I don't get to spend enough time working on Mathematica. It makes it a lot rougher when you can't work with the program like you should. I am lucky to get 3 hours a day at the computer. I am using the book Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, by Dr. E. M. Izhikevich. I am working on chapter 3, one dimensional systems. What he does is break up a hard problem into small steps to get you use to his style. And what he has done is to take the equation c*V'= -gsubL(V - Vsubnl) Where c = 10, gsubL = 19, Vsubnl = -67. His solution comes out as V'(t)= Vsubnl + (V0 - VsubnL)*e^-gsubL * t/c. And V0 is the initial voltage in the membrane which he changes in order to get each plot. He starts out with an initial voltage of 0 and works to -100. He got all of these numbers in an experiment. He does not supply the numbers he used. Its like he is skimming over everything and thinking that you already know it what he is doing. He then uses another system to solve it and he shows the plots. What you end up with is very similar to what several people have sent me, where you have many plots that are similar to e^-x. His vertical axes is V or the membrane voltage from -100 to 0, and the horizontal axes is time going from 0 to 5. His phase portrait for this is a straight line. The vertical axes is F(V)= V', and the horizontal axes is the membrane voltage going from -100 to 0. The line starts on the vertical axes which is "graph of F(V) = V'" at (V'=-67 & V = -100) and ends at the horizontal axes at (V = 20 & V' = 0), where the horizontal axes is the membrane potential V. The plots in his book are very small so I had to guess at the numbers. What I tried to do was to just plot his solution which is V(t)= Vsubnl + (V0 - Vsubnl)times e to the -gsubL * t divided by c. What I did was make up different equations such as vt1 = -67+(0-(-67))*e^-19t/c and substitute values for t. And then make another equation with a different V0 and do the same thing. Then finally combine them using Plot{{vt1,vt2 and so on}, {t,0,5}]. These results mimic his plots so I am on the right track. It's just that my way takes an enormous amount of time. I know that there must be a better way to do this with Mathematica. That's the whole point of my request for help. Thank You Jake noslowski at comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: DrMajorBob [mailto:btreat1 at austin.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:20 AM To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg116393] [mg116378] Re: changing variable in an equation You have a missing parenthesis, so I'll have to guess where you wanted it. Your three examples don't seem to match the phrase "working from -100 to 100". And there's a third variable -- x -- that you haven't explained. I'll give it a fixed value. So... working from -10 to t+10 to save time, and t varying from 0 to .1 so that everything isn't obscured by the scale: Clear[v] v[i_, x_, t_] = -67 + (10 (i - 1) + 67) x E^(-19 x t)/10; x = 3; Plot[Evaluate@Table[v[i, x, t], {i, -10, 10}], {t, 0, .1}, PlotRange -> All] In case it's x that should vary from -100 to 100, then I don't know what values i should take on. But... if you want to vary both, here's an example: Plot[Evaluate@Table[v[i, x, t], {i, -10, 10}, {x, 0, 3}], {t, 0, .1}, PlotRange -> All] Notice that this is colored differently: Plot[Table[v[i, x, t], {i, -10, 10}, {x, 0, 3}], {t, 0, .1}, PlotRange -> All] That's what Evaluate is about, in the other plots. Bobby On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:17:10 -0600, J and B <noslowski at comcast.net> wrote: > Below is an equation that I am working on. I know there is some way to > work it out better than what I am doing. I would like the variable a > to change in increments of 10, from -100 to 100. > Thanks > my main equation is: v = -67+(a-(-67) x E ^ (-19 x t)/10 what I am > doing: > v1= -67+(0-(-67) x E ^ (-19 x t)/10; > v2= -67+(-10-(-67) x E ^ (-19 x t)/10; v3= -67+(-20-(-67) x E ^ (-19 x > t)/10; and so on and working from -100 to 100 Then I use Plot [ { > v1,v2, v3 ........},{t,0,5}, PlotRange -> All] Please note that I have > added some spaces in to make it more readable. > thanks > Jake -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
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