Re: Question about Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg122766] Re: Question about Manipulate
- From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:51:17 -0500 (EST)
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You need to learn *some* Mathematica Syntax
Define your function with a parameter list, and delayed execution. In your case, f has 3 variables, and should be defined as
f[x_, a_, b_] := Sin[a x + b]
The way you have write it, f is defined as the (constant) expression that takes whatever values of x, a, and b are defined at the moment f was created. Since these are undefined, f would always return the same expression, which never takes on a numerical value.
When you place the expression Sin[a x + b] inside the Plot function, you specify the (local) variables x, a, b as part of the plot and Manipulate functions.
geo3rge
On Nov 9, 2011, at 6:24 AM, mailcwc at gmail.com wrote:
> I tried the following code in Mathematica 8.0
>
> Clear["Global`*"]
> f = Sin[a x + b]
> Manipulate[Plot[f, {x, 0, 4 \[Pi]}], {a, 0.5, 2}, {b, 0, 2 \[Pi]}]
>
> The Manipulate block is showed, but the Sin function is not plotted.
>
> When I replace f in the third line with its definition,
>
> Clear["Global`*"]
> Manipulate[ Plot[Sin[a x + b], {x, 0, 4 \[Pi]}], {a, 0.5, 2}, {b, 0, 2
> \[Pi]}]
>
> The Sin function is plotted.
>
> Is this a bug or a limitation in Mathematica?
>
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