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Re: loop for with plot

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  • Subject: [mg110043] Re: loop for with plot
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:44:53 -0400 (EDT)

This is a commonly-asked question (although most folks who ask usually 
have the same problem with Do rather than For).  The key is what the 
documentation says about For:

   Unless an explicit Return is used, the value returned by For is Null.

To get the body of the For to produce output for each value of the 
counter, just include a Print -- just like the very first Basic Example 
in the docs show:

   For[e3=0,e3<4,e3++,
        Print[Plot[{2*R3*Sin[ArcCos[x/R3]]*e3},{x,-2R3,2 R3}]]
      ]

(pretty-printed for syntactical clarity).


On 5/30/2010 6:47 AM, maria giovanna dainotti wrote:
> Dear Mathgroup,
>
> when I am using the loop for with plot is not working.
>
> here is the example
> R1=1.029
> R2=3
> R3=6
> e1=27
> e2=0
> e3=2.5
> For[e3=0,e3<4,e3++,Plot[{2*R3*Sin[ArcCos[x/R3]]*e3}, {x, -2R3,2 R3}]]
> How can I sort out the problem?
> Best regards
> Maria
>
>

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