Re: Problems evaluating Grad
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- Subject: [mg39410] Re: [mg39372] Problems evaluating Grad
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:20:45 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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There are two different problems with your attempt.
First, Grad from the Calculus`VectorAnalysis` package wants the function
to have 3 variables, not 2. Here's one way to do this (with a slightly
more interesting f):
f[x_, y_] := x^2 + Sin[y]
Drop[Grad[f[x, y], Cartesian[x, y, z]], -1]
{2 x,Cos[y]}
Second, if you use arguments "a" and "b" directly in the Grad
expression, instead of the {x,y,x} coordinates, you now have a constant
function, so that you correctly obtain:
Drop[Grad[f[a, b], Cartesian[x, y, z]], -1]
{0, 0}
You can get the answer you presumably want, namely {2a, Cos[b]}, in
either of two ways -- either respecifying the coordinate system or else
using a ReplaceAll ( /. ):
Drop[Grad[f[a, b], Cartesian[a, b, z]], -1]
{2 a, Cos[b]}
Drop[Grad[f[x, y], Cartesian[x, y, z]], -1] /. {x -> a, y -> b}
{2 a, Cos[b]}
Konrad Den Ende wrote:
> I'd like to detrmine Grad to a function so i go:
> <<Calculus`VectorAnalysis`
> f[x_,y_]:=x+y
>
> Grad[f[a,b]]
>
> I get no errors, but the answer is simply the same thing
> that i asked, as if no computation was done. What do i
> do wrong?
>
> Also - when i evaluated the examples in Help i got the same
> behavior. The answer that already is there gets exchanged
> to something else upon my evaluation. Namely, the question
> itself. What is that?!
>
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- Problems evaluating Grad
- From: "Konrad Den Ende" <chamsterkonrad@bigfoot.com>
- Problems evaluating Grad