Re: Oh why is life never easy? Need help with |vector|
- Subject: [mg2800] Re: [mg2771] Oh why is life never easy? Need help with |vector|
- From: mathes at esaab.math.missouri.edu (Elias Saab)
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 00:42:09 -0500
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Your original code had {} around the answer. Take them out and your problem will be solved. Of course Mma will consider what you have {a = Sqrt[(u[[1]]^2+u[[2]]^2+u[[3]]^2)]} as a vector. Try this code: absvec[u_] := Module[{a}, a = Sqrt[(u[[1]]^2+u[[2]]^2+u[[3]]^2)]] In fact one can define |v| as Sqrt[ v . v] Elias Saab On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, ULI WORTMANN wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to calculate v0 = v / |v| where v is a vector of size 3. > However, |v|, which is a scalar, is for some reason (I don't > understand) treated like a vector (at least VectorQ[|v|] gives > TRUE). Obviously, it is impossible to divide two vectors of different > length. > > |v| is defined as: > absvec[u_] := > Module[{a}, > {a = Sqrt[(u[[1]]^2+u[[2]]^2+u[[3]]^2)]}] > > and called as u = 1/absvec[v] > > To bad I have no idea what's wrong with this code. Any input is > appreciated. > > ThanX > Uli > -- > Uli Wortmann > > Dept. of Geology Fax (Germany) 89 3209 3168 > Tech. Univ. Munich Fon 3232 > email: uli at homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de >