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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How solve this nonlinear equations system by 12 unknowns?
We consider the following integral equation of mixed type:
$x[t]=\frac{t^4}{6} -\frac{t^3}{3} +t+\Sigma_{\mu=1}^2\int_{0}^t k_\mu[t,s]G_\mu[s,x[s]]ds
,0\leq t\leq 1 $ ; (1)
where
$k_1 [t, s] = s^3$...
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Find correct boundary value to solve an ODE
This is the first time I am seeking help on this site. I am not sure whether the problem can be sovled. Actually, I am trying to solve an ODE
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How to find a solution in terms of vars which satisfies equation for any value of x?
I am porting some Maple code I wrote to Mathematica. In one place, I use Maple's solve with what Maple call, identity.
The help page for this command is here
What is Mathematica's equivalent of ...
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Given f[b,d,k]=0 and g[b,d,k]=0, I need to find a branch (provided it exists) of k[b,d] such that this system has a solution in b,d
I have two polynomials in k given by f[b,d,k] and g[b,d,k]. I know that there exists a ...
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Solution for inequality equation - “Cannot be solved with the methods available to Reduce”
I am trying to solve the following inequality for $v$: $b>e^{\frac{-v}{\alpha}}\cdot \alpha + v$.
(Where I know: $b>0$, $v \in [0, 1]$, and $\alpha >0$).
However the following doesn't work: <...
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Using FindRoot on a function defined with FindRoot
Simplified starting point: I have a function of two variables
f[a_, x_] := x^2 + a^2 - 4;
and define a function that gives an x ...
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Plotting of probability density on a lattice and studying dynamics
I have a lattice described by a AdjacencyMatrix or Hamiltonian. This matrix has all the information of how each site is connected to another site with what hopping ...
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Why does this simple code with Eliminate not give any result?
My goal is to obtain the function $s$ defined in the code below as a function of $\chi_1$, $\chi_2$, $\chi_3$. The code runs but never ends, although the problem does not seem too hard to solve for a ...
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Equation solving to find a matrix
If I have the vector z={y1+2*y2+y3,y1+y2,y1+y2+y3} , and y={y1,y2,y3} and m=Array[a,{3,3}]. ...
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Partial derivative operator from 2 variables multiplied by functions
My main issue when I try to put all the equations in Mathematica ,I get different solution from what I expected should be,Epsilon 11,22,12 are functions and multiplied by Their partial derivative ...
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Solving 2nd order coupled differential equations using shooting method
I'm trying to solve these two coupled 2nd order differential equations:
with the following boundary conditions:
where $r_{*}$ is the value of the $r$ at midpoint. I was trying to solve these ...
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How to simplify complex Trigonometric expression in mathematica? [closed]
The expression which I need to simplify in mathematica into simplest form
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Asymptotic inversion of ExpIntegralEi function
I'm looking at the small-x and large-x asymptotic expansions of the inverse of exponential integral $E_1$ (https://dlmf.nist.gov/6.2#E1)
$$\begin{array}{lll}
E_1 & = & \int_z^\infty \frac{e^{-...
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Second operator for simple equation [closed]
The second operator for a function in manual solution doesn't work as the same as in the Mathematica wolfram code? what should I modify in the code to give the same as manual solution?
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How to NSolve when an NIntegrate is involved?
I need to find the set of 3rd order polynomial coefficients that will give a bounded exponential function f(x) = Exp[ c0 + c1x + c2x^2 + c3*x^3] a set of specified 0th,1st,2nd,and 3rd order moments.
I ...
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Solving integer equation with an oddness (or related) constraint
Consider this problem:
Find all $x,y \in \mathbb{N}$ with $\{ x,y \} \leq 100$, $y$ is odd, and
$$\frac{1}{x} + \frac{4}{y} = \frac{1}{12} .$$
One can convert the condition on $y$ to be $y = 2 z + 1$ ...
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Problem with NDSolveValue
I am trying to solve some 3D PDEs (for example, 3D diffusion equation) with step function or DiracDelta function as initial condition. I know those functions have discontinuity so I use some ...
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Removing transient part in equation and solving for a general form
I have the following code that I run:
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Write expressions in simpler form with substitution for part of the epxression
I have faced this situation many times where I get values like this as solutions:
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Setting a function equal to an integral
I am trying to solve for the constant of integration in simple calculus problems.
v[t_] := Integrate[-0.08 t, t] + C
v[t]
gives me
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Function not evaluating as expected [closed]
I'm not sure I understand why this is not working and why it's giving different answers:
A simple example illustrating the issue is below:
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Solve in parametric equations in term of a set of parameters
I am not sure the title is right but let me explain.
I have the relations
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Solving a determinant to get non-zero roots in a heat transfer problem
I am trying to solve a mathematical model of a heat transfer problem.
As an intermediate step there is a characteristic equation in the form of a determinant, which needs to be solved for variable <...
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Solving a second-order equation by imposing the constraint that the variables are real
I want to solve this equation
$$1 + x + x^2 + y - x y + y^2 = 0$$
under the constraint that both $x$ and $y$ are real (not complex). (Note that the unique solution is $(x,y) = (-1, -1)$.)
I first ...
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Making Intersection of 3 Lines Calculation More Efficient
So I managed to optimize the calculation a little for looking for 3 line intersections in equally spaced points around a circle by only checking one "wedge" of the circle, ignoring ...
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How to set up a boundary condition on the diagonal of a region that restricts a partial derivative?
The problem is to solve the Laplace equation on a polygon with one of the boundary conditions specifying derivative on the boundary. Let us consider a polygon region.
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Airy function zeros, conflict (error?) between Wolfram Functions vs. Mathematica
According to functions.wolfram.com, the zeros of the Airy function $\operatorname{Ai}(z)$ occur at $z_k=f\left(\tfrac{3\pi}{8}(4k-1)\right)$ for $k\in \mathbb{N}$ where
$f(d)=-d^{2/3} \left(1 + \frac{...
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Reduce coefficients from constraints in a set of equations
Total beginner here. I am chaining 4 quadratic equations $f_i(x)$ at 4 knots $k_i$ (where $0 < k_i < 1$ and $k_{i+1} > k_i$) on a wrapped unit interval (i.e. $0 \leq x \leq 1$):
$$ f_i(x) = ...
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Using `FindRoot` to solve over positive integers?
I need to solve for the smallest positive integer $s$ such that the following is satisfied for $p>1, n\approx \infty, \epsilon>0$
$$\frac{\sum_{i=1}^n \left(1-i^{-p}\right)^si^{-p}}{\sum_{i=1}^n ...
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How to force NMinimize to find the correct global minimum for equation with many local minima?
I have a function that I am unable to recover a solution for. Here, 0.533... and 0.428... are the exact solutions for Rs[399] and ...
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Solving an equation matrix with NDSolve
Imagine I want to solve the following matrix system of equations
$$
\begin{pmatrix}
\dot{x}_{11} & \dot{x}_{12} & \dot{x}_{13}\\
\dot{x}_{21} & \dot{x}_{22} & \dot{x}_{23}\\
\dot{x}_{...
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Plotting Intersection Points Between 3+ Lines
For a personal project involving a coordinate system for navigating the galaxy using 36/38 equidistant points around a circle, I need to find all intersections between 3+ lines using 3 pairs of points ...
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Solve misses positive solutions
Why Solve returns only negative solutions?
Let $n \in \mathbb{Z}^{+}$. I want to find geometric position of roots of polynomial $p(x)=(x-1)^{2 n}+(x+1)^{2 n}$ in ...
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Difference between when Solve returns `{}` and `{{}}` [closed]
I have two Solve commands in Mathematica. The first happens to be a matrix equation (not sure this is relevant, but just in case), and it returns ...
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What sorts of expressions can be Solve'd for?
We can Solve for expressions that match _Symbol, as in Solve[x^2+1 == 0, x]—but we can also ...
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Numerically solve 2nd order differential equations:
I'm trying to solve these two coupled 2nd order differential equations, but I'm getting nowhere. Mathematica can't seem to solve these no matter what I do. The equations are:
The $r_{*}$ is the value ...
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A quadratic system with two solutions which may be solved with numeric coefficients, but not with symbolic ones
The system below may be solved using the observation that the second and third equation admit solution (,0,0,); alternatively, the determinant of these two equations must be 0. ...
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Solution of a nonlinear equation depending on the parameter
I need to solve an equation
Solve[m + x*(-1 + 2*x - Log[2*Pi]) + (-1 + 2*m - 4*x)*x*Log[x] == 0, x]
It is not possible on a symbolic level. It would be ideal to ...
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Getting the coefficients of an expression with Solve
I have a very lengthy expression (600+ terms) with derivatives of several functions, which I want to write in a compact way. I would like to get the coefficients of terms I know exist in this ...
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Finding the absolute value of the roots of a polynomial
So I am trying to find the absolute value of the roots of a polynomial in Mathematica. I am quite new to this software and I am having a hard time how to figure out the absolute value of the roots of ...
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RSolve solves only one of two equivalent recurrences
I am having an issue with the RSolveValue/RSolve function. Specifically, Mathematica is able to correctly evaluate ...
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Mass-spring-damper model - Encountered non-numerical value for a derivative at t == 0 [closed]
I'm just trying to solve a single mass-spring-damper-model by this code in Mathematica:
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help request speeding a code up
I hope everybody is fine at Corona virus times.
Can anyone help me in speeding my code up for M=20?Thank you.
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Is it possible to calculate the desired area analytically?
I have the three two-variable curves $f,g,h$ with $0\leq x\leq \frac {\pi}{2} $ and $0 \leq y \leq \pi$
I use ContourPlot as
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How we can solve heat equation with this particular boundary conditions (error NDsolve)?
Please I need help to solve this heat equation with this particular boundary conditions:
This the Code I tried in Mathematica:
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How solve this system of trigonometric equations?
I have the following system of equations:
(substituting any real values for a,b,c,r,Alpha,Beta will return the same answer for x)
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solution of $\frac{1}{x}=\infty$
Is there a way to obtain solution $x=0$ for the equation $\frac{1}{x}=\infty$ in Mathematica?
I tried Solve, Reduce, ...
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Solving a complex equation with Solve
I would like to solve:
$e^{-b (1.365)} + e^{-b(-0.350)} + e^{-b(-0.378)} = 0$, where $b$ is complex.
So, I have written:
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