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How to speed up FindRoot with Map or MapThread

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• Subject: [mg129355] How to speed up FindRoot with Map or MapThread
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• Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:39:14 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
I would like to speed up FindRoot. 
In this special case I'm looking for roots of the equation 

sin[2*theta]+2*h*sin[theta - phi]

for different h's and phi's.
To do this I specify for each h the region within which the solution has to be found: X = {x_middle, x_left, x_right}, e.g.:

FindRoot[sin[2*theta] + 2*h1*sin[theta - phi1] == 0 , {theta, x_middle, x_left, x_right}]

That means that h is an mx1 matrix and X is an nx3 matrix (X = {x_middle, x_left, x_right}).

The question:
How can I use Map or MapThread to combine each element of h with the whole matrix X inside FindRoot to speed it up?

Thanks for any idea.

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  • Re: How to speed up FindRoot with Map or MapThread
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