Questions tagged [equation-solving]
Questions on the analytic and numerical equation solving functions of Mathematica (Solve, Reduce, NSolve, FindRoot, DSolve, RSolve, etc.).
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Solve returns complicated and wrong solution
I have the following equation
(8 F (D1 + ((D2 - D1) nf)/n)^3)/(G d^4) == H/n
Solving for $n_f$ by hand is simple and gives
$$
n_f=\frac{n}{\text{D2}-\text{D1}} \...
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points of intersection along curve and horizontal line [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the intersection points of the following plot with the given boundaries. How would I do so in the bounds set by the above plot? I've tried FindRoot by setting the lines equal to ...
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NSolve for x and y
I'm trying to solve the following for x and y, but the evaluated cell just gives me back what I tried to solve, just a little more simplified.
If both x and y were bounded from [0,5], how would I ...
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Find best fitted approximated parameters
I want to find the best fitted approximated parameters for following cases:
$$\begin{align*}
2a + 3b &= 5\\
a + b &= 4\\
a + b &= 3.9\\
2a + 3b &= 5.1
\end{align*}$$
If I use ...
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solve equation by explain n*n matrix or equation team
I want to solve n equation which has n root with Gauss-Elimination Method. I indicated root formulation and methodology in picture. But I don't know that how can I do this. Should I explain n*n matrix?...
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How to print by using For loop?
For[mu = 0; mu < 6, mu++,
mu = -4.84*10^(-4) - 17.82*10^(-4)*T1 +
1.53*10^(-4)*T1*2.303*Log[T1]; Print[T1]]
I want to get the value of ...
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Never terminating when solving linear Diophantine systems
Say I have:
$(1):$ Set of Diophantine systems where each defines a (possibly unbounded) polyhedron.
This is solvable with existing algorithms:
$(*):$ The $(1)$ can be solved in SageMath with ...
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How robust are mathematica‘s equation-solving capabilities? [on hold]
My question regards using the Mathematica command as part of a rigorous proof. Rather than describe the general situation—- suppose I can the proof of a result to the fact a pair of equations $h(a,b)=...
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Is there a feasible computation?
I have to find the values of $p_1$ and $p_2$ which minimizes the expression $G$. However, when I took the partial differentiation of $G$ with respect to $p_1$ and $p_2$, the equations I obtained were ...
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Unable to find root for user-defined function
I created the function getSolution[xVal,yVal] for a geometry problem I'm working on and wish to solve it for getSolution[2,x]==0. I can plot it clearly showing the roots:
However, when I attempt to ...
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Mathematica Fails to Solve a System of 3 Equations!
I'm trying to solve what I thought would be a simple set of 3 equations for Mathematica! But it grinds endlessly without any result..
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NIntegrate in FindRoot: s=S is not a valid limit of integration
I get an error code saying that "s=S is not a valid limit of integration" when I use the following code:
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How to find the distances between two adjacent maxima in a solution from NDSolve
I try to find a general approach to plot the time evolution of horizontal distances from maximum to maximum in a solution of PDE. The solution u[x,t] normally have ...
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Need help with ParametricNDSolveValue for ODE with two variables and Do-loop
I' m trying to solve a tricky 2-nd order ODE with
ParametricNDSolveValue for boundary conditions (BCs) y = 0 at R and ...
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how to solve the equation
I want to sole the given equation for x. Can anyone help me please to analyse the solution. Thanks
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Solving 5 nonlinear equations, is there a suitable way?
I'm trying to solve a set of 5 nonlinear equations using NSolve:
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Need help with ContourPlot3D
I need to print out the value of x, y, and z when h==0, g==0. Help please?
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Solve giving solution when there is no solution
I got a strange result from Solve.
I have the following relations:
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Getting an analytical form $f(x,y)$ from numerical solutions of a ContourPlot
I numerically solved a set of equations which yields a solution of the form $f(x,y)=c$.
I was hoping to obtain an analytic expression for $f(x,y)=1$ (in my case $c=1$) but all I managed to do was to ...
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Solve a one dimensional heat transfer problem with NDSolve
The following problem is a 1-D heat transfer conduction problem:
where,
I am trying to solve with NDSolve like this way:
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How to ask Mathematica to express variables in terms of each other in an implicit function
How to ask Mathematica to give $y$ in terms of $x$ in this function? Is there a way to obtain a closed form expression for $y$ in terms of $x$?
$x=\frac{\left(y^4-1\right) \left(\coth (2 y)-\frac{1}{...
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Why does FindInstance take so long: It is faster with more restrictions than with less?
A support case with the identification [CASE:4347836] was created.
I just noted this little puzzle on twitter by Brillant.org:
\begin{align} A B C\\+ BCA\\ = CDE \end{align}
Given that $A$ is even ...
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Convert symbolic to numeric code: speed up morphing
Recently I asked a question about the morphing between two functions and got two excellent answers. The accepted answer is using the continuous optimal transport theory. This seems to be very suitable ...
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Simulating a function with no closed form solution
So I am trying to simulate a function in 3d. Suppose our function looks like this:
f=k*r*a
I am interested in simulating the numerical values of k when r is ...
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Manipulation replacements rules from Solve [closed]
Assume the call to the routine Solve[eqn==0,{x1,x2}] returns:
{{x1->a1,x2->a2},{x1->b1,x2->b2}}
I would like to ...
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Verifying that a functions attends values below something
After plotting the graph of $$f(x)=\frac{π}{3\sqrt{2 π}} (\frac{e^{\frac{-x^2}{18}}}{3} + \frac{e^{\frac{-(x - 5)^2}{2}}}{1} +\frac{e^{\frac{-(x - 15)^2}{8}}}{2}
) (1 + x^2)$$
I would like to ...
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Solving an equation: Reduce command produces failure message
I am trying to solve the following equation for c:
All variables can only take positive values and c>s. I have tried the following code:
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Reduce[expr,vars] behavior when vars are not present
It is officially documented that Reduce should be used like Reduce[expr,vars]. However, I've used ...
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How do I solve a cubic equation for values of x?
I have partially differentiated an equation w.r.t. x, see picture below, and want to isolate x in the equation to solve for a local maximum.
Can I use Mathematica to get it on a cubic form? and how ...
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Why FindRoot does not give all roots? [closed]
I would like to solve complicated equation and use FindRoot to find roots numerically. I do not understand the following problem. I provide the simple example. Considert the equation:
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Hardy Ramanujan Question [duplicate]
I revised the code I asked about earlier, but I am still not getting an output. According to Mathematica it is (mostly) correct syntax. Here is the revised function:
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NMinimize with real solutions, problem in the resolution and criteria for other ways to solve equations
I have multiple parts in my question. You are welcome to answer to any of them :)
Part 1 :
I have 3 equations $p(x_1,y_1)=p(x_2,y_2),\mu_x(x_1,y_1)=\mu_x(x_2,y_2),\mu_y(x_1,y_1)=\mu_y(x_2,y_2)$. I'm ...
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Numerically solving a system of many coupled non-linear ODEs efficiently?
I'm studying a fairly typical problem: a chain of $n$ coupled, non-linear oscillators. Since I want to look at open boundary conditions, the equations of motion for the position of the first and the ...
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Using Element on list of numbers when defining equations
If been looking on how to construct equations with region or domains for some variables.
Suppose I have x and that x can only be the number 1,2,4 or 7
The equation 2 x < 10 will then results in x ...
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NDSolve for Complex Algebraic-Differential Equation
Let consider the following complex equations:
$$
\frac{i x(s)}{2\pi} - \frac{\log(1+ e^{-y(s)}) - \log(1 + e^{y(s)})}{\dot x(s)}
$$
which I will cal eq1 and
$$
\...
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How this equation is solved in reals
I have tried to solve this equation $2^{-2 ^{2^{-x}}}=2$ using
FindInstance[2^(-2^(2^(-x))) == 2, x, Reals]
The result is
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Efficient way to list zeroes of an oscillating function
From "The First 50 Million
Prime Numbers" by Don Zagier: primes are integral roots of$$
1-\frac{\sin(\frac{\pi\Gamma(s)}s)}{\sin(\frac\pi s)}.
$$
The graph of this function looks like
I would like to ...
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Roots of complex numbers
My exercise is to find $n$ roots of a rank $n$ of a complex number. Here is my code:
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Is priority important in `Series` expansion?
I have a strange case here! The story begins with this equation
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How I can obtain u and z?
Integrate[1/Sqrt(2*Cosh[y] - 2*Cosh[u]) , {y, z, u}] == 0.013
2*Cosh[z] - 2*Cosh[u] == 0.41
Can I obtain the parameters of u and z using above equations?
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“Arnoldi” method for Eigenvalues inside FindRoot
I'm trying to implement a function which, given a matrix with one free parameter, would return the value of the parameter at which the lowest eigenvalue of the matrix is equal to a certain number.
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Problem in implementing periodic boundary condition to solve a system of PDEs with period 2 Pi/constant
I wish to solve the following system of PDEs for h1, h2 using periodic boundary conditions and specified initial conditions. When I execute Mathematica complains that the boundary conditions are not ...
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System of delay differential equations: using first interpolation as second initial condition
I am trying to solve numerically the following system of two coupled delay differential equations:
$$\dot x(t)=-\gamma x(t)-\frac{\gamma}{4}e^{i\omega_0\tau_1}y(t-\tau_1)\theta(t-\tau_1)+\frac{\...
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Define a function including two solve solutions
I'm trying to combine the solutions coming from two NSolves and define a new function that I've to integrate.
Basically I've defined two ...
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How to solve the problem
I want to solve these equations for "r" and \theta. But, mathematica is unable to produce output. Can anyone help me please to find the values for "r" and \theta? Here, "k" can be fixed by 0.75.
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