Re: FindRoot cannot find obvious solution
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- Subject: [mg47828] Re: [mg47806] FindRoot cannot find obvious solution
- From: Anton Antonov <antonov at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Mukhtar Bekkali wrote:
>Here is my code in Mathematica 5:
>
>h1=1+(y-x)^2;
>h2=1+(2/3-x^2)^2;
>b=h2/(h1+h2);
>f=x(1-x)^2;
>s=f*D[b,y];
>g[y_]:=NIntegrate[s,{x,0,1}];
>FindRoot[g[y]==0,{y,0.35,0.45}]
>
>The output is
>
>NIntegrate::inum: Integrand H is not numerical at {x} = {0.5`}.
>FindRoot::cvmit: Failed to converge to the requested accuracy or precision
>within 100 iteration
>
>and it gives me y->0.45 or the upper boundary. However, when I plot g[y] I
>can see that the solution is somewhere around y=0.4. Using Solve instead of
>FindRoot does not give me any solutions.
>
>What am I doing wrong here? Thank you in advance. Mukhtar Bekkali
>
>
>
You can try this:
In[158]:=
Clear[f, g, s, y, x]
h1 = 1 + (y - x)^2;
h2 = 1 + (2/3 - x^2)^2;
b = h2/(h1 + h2);
f = x*(1 - x)^2;
s = f*D[b, y];
g[s_, (y_)?NumericQ] := NIntegrate[s, {x, 0, 1}];
FindRoot[g[s, y] == 0, {y, 0.35, 0.45}]
Out[165]=
{y -> 0.3993706824894056}
The reason why NIntegrate gives "inum"messages is explained at
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/mathematics/numerics/nsumerror.html
Anton Antonov
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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- FindRoot cannot find obvious solution
- From: "Mukhtar Bekkali" <mbekkali@iastate.edu>
- FindRoot cannot find obvious solution