Re: mathematica gives strange result
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- Subject: [mg111266] Re: mathematica gives strange result
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: nma at 12000.org
On 7/24/2010 10:57 PM, SNC wrote: > Im trying to find a solution to equation DSolve[-y''[x] + > ((Csc[x])^2)*y[x] == y[x]/4, y[x], x] but mathematica gives me some > strange result with expresion (-1+cos^2(x))^(1/4) in it. Why is that > and how should i interpretate this? > You got back y(x), which is the solution to the diff equation? If you have initial conditions, then you can also plot y(x). Mathematica found y(x), which satisfies the ode. I assume that you know that a solution to an ode is a function which if substituted back into the ode itself, it satisfies it. I am not sure I really answered your question or not. May be it helps if you said what you expected to see, and why the answer returned seems to surprise you? --Nasser