Re: Newbie Question: Solving for x?
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- Subject: [mg40702] Re: Newbie Question: Solving for x?
- From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at attbi.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
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As another novice user, I would be inclined to answer your question with the
following suggestion:
Clear[y]
\!\(\*
RowBox[{"Solve", "[",
StyleBox[\(y == \[ExponentialE]\^\(\(-x\^2\)\/2\)\/\@\(2 \[Pi]\), \
x\),
FormatType->StandardForm],
StyleBox["]",
FormatType->StandardForm]}]\)
I'm sure there are much more elegant ways to do this, however. I have also
found David Park's web site useful, and he has a notebook at URL:
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/Mathematica.html
called StepByStepEquations.nb which is most illustrative for those getting
used to Mathematica.
Hope this helps.
Thanks in advance,
Steven Shippee
mailto:shippee at jcs.mil
(360)-902-5817
"AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a formula expressing y in terms of x:
>
> \!\(y = \[ExponentialE]\^\(\(-x\^2\)\/2\)\/\@\(2 \[Pi]\)\)
>
> How do you make it so that it expresses x in terms of y?
>
>