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23 questions linked to/from Find all roots of an interpolating function (solution to a differential equation)
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How do I get all the roots within a certain range for an equation? [duplicate]
I wish to find ALL the roots of the following equation $ x \tan(ax) - c = 0$ within a range, where a and c are constants I control.
I've been using ...
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How to find x for certain y from InterpolatingFunction [duplicate]
As shown in the picture, I get the data after using NDSolve. Now I want to get the x for cetain y, how can I do this?
The last three lines is the way I try to ...
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How to find all the local minima/maxima in a range
I want to find :
all local maxima in range
all local minima in range
From those points I can interpolate and combine functions upper and lower boundary. What I am really interested in, is the mean ...
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How to find numerically all roots of a function in a given range?
It is common that I search numerically for all zeros (roots) of a function in a given range. I have written two simple minded functions that perform this task, and I know of similar functions on this ...
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Solving this challenging ODE
Consider the ODE:
$$w^{(4)}(x) + (L-x)w''(x) - w'(x) = 0 $$
with some of the following boundary conditions:
free: $w'' = 0$, $w'''=0$,
clamped: $w = 0$, $w'=0$,
pivot: $w = 0$, $w''=0$.
Two such ...
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NDEigenvalues vs. FindRoot for finding the eigenvalues of Airy equation?
Say I am trying to find the first 5 eigenvalues of the differential equation $f''(x)=\lambda x f(x)$, on the interval [-1,0], with boundary conditions $f(-1)=f(0)=0$.
I will try to do this 3 ways, ...
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Labeling solutions of an Eigenvalue equation involving Bessel functions
I'm solving the Schrödinger equation for a particle in an annular geometry with hard wall boundary conditions and I've reduced it to the following equation:
$$J_m(k\,R_1)\,Y_m(k\,R_2) - J_m(k\,R_2)\,...
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How can I solve this equation: $(47^{(u + 1)} + 3^{(u + 1)})/(u + 1) ==50^{1.5}/1.5$?
Solve[(47^(u + 1) + 3^(u + 1))/(u + 1) ==(50^1.5)/1.5,u]
The code I tried is above, but it showed me a message problem
"Solve was unable to solve the system ...
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Why does the following Solve take so long?
Why does the following take Mathematica so long to reply to?
Solve[BetaRegularized[0.5, k, n - k - 1] == 0.035, k]
where $n = 1000$
By the way, In case there is ...
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Find all roots in range
Is there any way to check for all roots in a range? Jens' findAllRoots function is pretty good, but runs at approx. 10% of roots missed when I ran a quick check on ...
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Techniques to find all local minima of black box function with n continuous derivatives?
I have a blackbox function f on [a,b] that is known to be continuous, and has n continuous derivatives. The function uses polynomial interpolations (but isn't a polynomial interpolation itself), so no ...
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Find roots of a function involving Bessel functions
I'm trying to find the roots of a function involving Bessel functions.
Here is my code
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Find all roots of a function with parabolic cylinder functions in a range of the variable
I want to find all roots of a function involving Parabolic Cylinder Functions. In what follows, I define 2 variables $\xi1$ and $\xi2$, which in turn depend on $\omega$. My function is then defined as ...
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Eigen values of a third order linear homogenous ODE
From a system of PDEs where i used the following ansatz: $$\theta_w(x,y) = e^{-\beta_h x} f(x) e^{-\beta_c y} g(y)$$. $F(x) := \int f(x) \, \mathrm{d}x$ and $G(y) := \int g(y) \, \mathrm{d}y$
So, $$\...
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Finding roots of a function that includes Bessel functions [duplicate]
I'm fairly new to Mathematica so forgive any stupid mistakes. Here's my function:
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Difficulty finding roots of an interpolation function from NDSolve
I have been trying to find the point at which one of the solutions of a system of two ODEs crosses zero. I used the method suggested in this answer to a previous question, which seemed to be the most ...
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Finding all zeroes - mysterious missing roots
Finding all the roots of a function of one real variable has been discussed extensively in e.g. Find all roots of an interpolating function (solution to a differential equation) (answer no. 2 by Jens ...
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Obtaining values from interpolating functions
A similar question has been asked in the post HERE but the current question is more complicated: I have the following differential system
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Complex roots of the determinant of symbolic matrix
I am trying to find multiple complex and real roots of the determinant of symbolic matrix. Someone advised me to use Muller's method. I am wondering if there is a package already written to do this ...
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Probleme with Ted Ersek's RootSearch package [duplicate]
The following question is a logical continuation of this one. The Ted Ersek's RootSearch package doesn't work with this code:
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Creating a For Loop for a equation that has many solutions [duplicate]
I have two equations like these. I want to create a for loop that gives to me all intersection points of the two equations. How can I do that?
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Finding positive region of continous function
I want to find (and plot) the positive region (within a certain domain say x<3,y<3) of a function ...
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Help me solve this equation; I believe this is a transcendental equation [duplicate]
please can someone help me solve
(x*L)+B*tan(x*L)=0,
solve for x when B=10;L=0.1. The equation looks innocent but I need to find 1st 5 roots of equ.