Is a solution possible to this exponential equation?
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- Subject: [mg6994] Is a solution possible to this exponential equation?
- From: Michael Hucka <hucka at eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:48:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have a pair of equations involving exponentials that I'd like to be able to solve for one of the variables, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. MMA 3.0's Solve operator complains its usual complaint about the equation involving transcendental functions. Quite possibly there is no analytical solution, but I'd like to find out from the experts out there about what approaches one might try. The equations are as follows: 1/2 = kc * Exp[ -a * w^2 * x^2 ] - ks * Exp[ -a * b^2 * w^2 * x^2] where a and b are constants, and kc, ks, w and x are variables. There is an additional condition, kc - ks = Sqrt[ 1/2 ] So there are 2 equations and 4 unknowns. I'd like to solve this for w, or rather, to express w in terms of the other unknowns. The problem, of course, is that w is in the exponent of two of the terms. What is the right approach to take in cases like this? This is actually something I've come across before in my work, but haven't had much luck with. -- Mike Hucka hucka at umich.edu http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~hucka University PhD to be, computational models of human visual processing (AI Lab) of UNIX systems administrator & programmer/analyst (EECS DCO) Michigan