Re: NDSolve and Parametric Plot
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- Subject: [mg85466] Re: NDSolve and Parametric Plot
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:14:19 -0500 (EST)
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Alex Cloninger schrieb: > So I'm trying to run a simple program that will solve this series of differential equations and plot the the x[t] function in the complex plane. Here's my code. > > solution = NDSolve[{x'[t] == 2p[t], x[0] == 2, p'[t] == -2x[t], p[0] == Sqrt[-3]}, {x, p}, {t, 0, 2*Ï?}] > > repart[t_] := Re[x[t] /. solution] > impart[t_] := Im[x[t] /. solution] > > ParametricPlot[{repart[t], impart[t]}, {t, 0, 2Ï?}, PlotRange -> {{-2, 2}, {-2,2}}] > > For some reason, when I go to plot the curve, I get an error saying > ParametricPlot::pptr: {repart[t], impart[t]} does not evaluate to a pair of real numbers at t=2.617993877991494`*^-7 > > What's going on? Could someone please help me with this? > You should write: repart:=Re[ x[t]/.solution[[1]] ] impart:=Im[ x[t]/.solution[[1]] ] ParametricPlot[{repart,impart},{t,0,2Pi}] Gruss Peter -- ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de