Re: Solving a simple equation
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- Subject: [mg121848] Re: Solving a simple equation
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 03:59:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Am 04.10.2011 07:39, schrieb Daniel Kallfaß: > Hi there, I wonder why the following equation cannot be solved: > > \[Kappa] = 1.4 > \[CapitalTheta] = 10; > NSolve[Tan[\[Theta] degree] == > 2*Cot[\[Beta] degree]*(ma1^2*Sin[\[Beta] degree]^2 - 1)/( > ma1^2*(\[Kappa] + Cos[2 \[Beta] degree]) + 2), \[Beta]] > > It says: NSolve::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods > available to NSolve. > > Is there something I'm missing? My Voyage 200 solves it without any > issues. > > Thanks, > Daniel > Hi Daniel, I saved a notebook [1] in the w³. It uses Reduce and/or FindRoot to get one or more of the solutions. Peter [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3030567/Mathematica/DanielsGleichung.nb