Questions tagged [replacement]
Questions about Mathematica's rule-based replacement functionality, including functions such as Rule (->), Replace, ReplaceAll (/.) and ReplaceRepeated (//.).
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Replace function for derivatives [on hold]
I have an equation with a partial derivative bzp^(0,1,0,0)[x, y, z, t]. I have solved for bzp[x, y, z, t] from another equation, ...
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Could not able to replace some terms in my final expresion
I have three equations. The third one is the sum of the first and the second. I wanted to replace some terms in the third equation but it is not happening. I don't know why
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Expressing D[1/D1, x] in terms of D1 when D1 = 1 + x
For simplicity, taking D1 to be equal to 1 + x, I want to evaluate the derivative of 1/D1 (...
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Pattern test: _Integer vs _?IntegerQ [closed]
While checking out the different pattern replacement methods in this question, I have a query regarding the basic difference between the following two replacements:
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Using rule with derivative
Assuming I have an expression like:
D[a[t, r], r] + D[D[a[t, r], r],r] + D[D[a[t, r], t],r]
I would like to change variables, by expression everything in terms of ...
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How to substitute integral operators into polynomials?
Suppose I have a polynomial
$a_0+a_1 f(x,t) + a_2 f(x,t)^2 + ....$.
In code,
a0 + a1 y + a2 y^2 + a3 y^3 /. y :> Integrate[Subscript[y, k] E^(I k y), k]
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Replacement using pattern matching?
Starting with the expression
eq1 = 5 Exp[1 + 2 x + 3 x^2 + 4 x^3];
I want to implement the following transformation:
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Pattern matching failed [closed]
I want to replace Θ[z + m τ] by a[m] Θ[z]. So I consider the pattern ...
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How to replace an expression in an entire notebook?
I have a frequently occurring complex expression, let's for simplicity say $a+b$ which I want to replace with let's say $c$ in all the mathematical expressions following this Rule. It is simply like ...
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How to replace all the derivatives of a particular function?
For a given expression, such as:
exp=p[x]+p'[x]+p''[x]...Derivative[n][p][x]
I want to replace all the derivatives of p[x] to ...
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Show result of matrix operation in terms of user defined matrices
I have defined some matrices K[0],K[1],...,K[9] and S[1],...
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Substitution into integral [duplicate]
I have to do a substitution (u = pi/2-x) into an definite integral, which I have defined as f[u]. When I evaluate my code, no ...
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Replace second derivative with product rule
Suppose that after some calculations, I find
a[x]*D[g[x],x,x]+b[x]*D[h[x],x,x]+c[x]*D[j[x],x]
What sort of operations do I need to do in Mathematica such that ...
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Substitution of an expression into another expression
I'm trying the following Mathematica command to simplify an expression by substitution of a known constant, but it's not performing the substitution. Any ideas why?
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Replace every n-th part of list [closed]
I have a list:
b = ConstantArray[1, 50];
And I would like to replace every say 5th element with 2: I came up with:
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How to use ReplaceAll on an expression that contains a rule
I know I have seen this before but can't seem to locate it today.
I am trying to take an expression that has some rules in it and replace one of that parts that contain a rule using ...
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Replacing with pattern on built-in symbols?
I have:
f[a, b] /. f[x__] -> g[x, 0] // InputForm
(* Out: g[a, b, 0] *)
Which is what I expect, but when I use a built in symbol instead of ...
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Replace expressions outside certain functions
I'm trying to replace variables outside of certain functions. More precisely, in the standard ones like Sin substitution should work while in undefined ...
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Replacing with Elements from a List [duplicate]
I have a fairly complicated expression with nested lists and I want to substitute a given string for each integer. Here's a simple example where ind is my integer-valued data structure and names is ...
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Moving to the last placeholder with inputautoreplacements
I have had a long-standing problem when I try to use my inputautoreplacements in a text cell. The replacements I have made include boxes that include placeholders.
When in the text cell, you type ...
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A single argument pattern definition applies to multiple-argument patterns?
Consider defining a pattern rule, such as
myFun[x_]:=x
As far as I understand Mathematica syntax, this rule means
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Substitution in expressions
As the title suggests, I want in an expression to to some substitutions. For example in the expression $\mathcal{L}^+_0+\mathcal{L}^-_0+\mathcal{L}^+_0+\mathcal{L}^-_0+\mathcal{L}_1$ I want to ...
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Replacing a derivative [closed]
If I want to calculate e.g. $\frac{dr(t)}{dt}$ then in Mathematica we can write e.g. ,
answer = D[r[t],t]
This outputs r'[t] ...
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constructing Matrix from coefficients of solution & assigning 0 for empty Cells [closed]
i tried to construct a matrix from the coefficients of my solution, but problem that;
1; how can i get coefficients out of Solve
2; some Matrix elements are empty so i must assign 0 in those empty ...
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Replace constant in summation function using replace or If or /
Hi i how do i replace constant for k in this summation.
For following:
Even 2*n Even replace k by a
Even 2*n+1 Odd replace k by b
Here is the code
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Inconsistent application of replacement rule
I want to use a replacement rule to change log[var] into var inside a function. A minimal example follows. In one case it ...
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Finitely many repeated replacements
I'm looking for good practices to replace a given function recursively n times by itself with its arguments. The following example (for n=2) hopefully makes it clear:
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Using the Replace function [closed]
How can I replace two variables at once with Replace[] ? Can't find how to do this. I tried
Replace[x^2+y^2, {x -> a, y -> b}]
but does not work...
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Replacement Rule for Functions
Attempting to write a rule that will substitute an undetermined function of several variables by some other undeterminate functions (also, of the same several variables). I can do it in an inelegant ...
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How to avoid Replace substituting subscripts?
I have a polynomial in $\rho$ with many parameters (I will omit the polynomial code in the Mathematica expressions below because it is too long):
$$
\rho ^3 J (\mu +1) \left[(A \delta \tau _0+B (1-\...
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Substitution inside an expression [duplicate]
I'm trying to get mathematica to replace an expression with a reduced form. I wanted to replace $(k/w)$ with $h$ in a particular expression, and I've tried something like:
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Neglect higher order derivatives in expression
Say I have an expression of this sort:
Derivative[5][x1][t]+Derivative[3][x2][t]+x1[t]+Derivative[2][x1][t]
and so on...
I would like to ask Mathematica to ...
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Replacement rule for terms that are separated by operators?
My main problem is how one can create a "transcending between operators rule" in the same term according to the minimal example bellow.
Suppose I need to perform a replacement of the form
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Question about replacement and plot
I want to plug a value into the following solution which I defined.
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How to apply a continious substitution reduction of (-1 + 3 phi - 2 phi^3 - 6 phi^4 - 20 phi^6 + 6 phi^7 + 3 phi^8 + phi^9)//.{phi^3->1-phi^2}
I have the answer to
$(-1 + 3 phi - 2 phi^3 - 6 phi^4 - 20 phi^6 + 6 phi^7 + 3 phi^8 + phi^9)/.{phi^3->1-phi^2}$,
that is not the problem. I am looking for a method that continues to apply this ...
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Setting Some Elements in a Matrix to zero
Assuming I have the a 5x7 matrix below:
b = ((1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 4, 2), (36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 5, 1), (121, 144,
169, 196, 225, 8, 9), (256, 289, 324, 361, 400, 9, 5), (441, 484,
529, 576, 625, ...
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Elements Replacement
Please I need help on how to replace elements in a matrix with another elements. For example, I have a (5,5) matrix, and I like to replace elements from All rows and column 3 to 5, with zero. such ...
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Notation package with Traditional Form
I symbolize subscripted variables with the form TraditionalForm, to enable easy use of TeXForm as suggested here:
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Replacing a subset of variables in a polynomial [closed]
Let's say I have a polynomial in n variables, e.g. x^3 + xyz + z^2, where n=3 in this case. How can I replace all of the variables in the equation with a certain number?
I tried things like
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Replacement rule for a function and its derivative
I have this equation:
EOM1 = Subscript[x1, t, t] + ω1^2*x1 /.
Subscript[x1_, m__] :> D[x1[x, t], m] /.
x1 -> x1[x, t]
The problem with the ...
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Convert String in Expression to Integer
I have reviewed many string replacement Q&A but I have been unable to apply them to this case (MWE):
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Using Min & Max of an Interval in a replacement [closed]
I want to use a replacement rule to transform a list of equations. The following works as expected:
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Convert defined variables to rule list
I'd like to make a function that takes a list of variables and returns a corresponding rule list with the current values of the variables. E.g.
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Why doesn't `ReplaceAll` work in this situation? [closed]
I can work around this by using With, but it seems really odd to get the following:
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Using rule output as function
Im trying to define a function using the output from RSolve, however i cant get it to work properly.
I have a RSolve that output something like:
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Having problems with using TableForm to format a table
I want to make a table of various values of the logistic curve given by l[x_] := 1/(1 + E^((-k)*(x - \[Alpha]))).
In basic form, this is dead easy. However, I want ...
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Why does this replacement rule for imaginary unit not work? [closed]
I'm trying to replace imaginary unit in an expression with a real unit:
E^(-I y) /. I -> 1
E^(-I y)
As you can see, in ...
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ReplaceAll giving different answer than actual replacement
I have an expression, and I wanted to evaluate it for a certain value of a variable. However, /. gives a calculation error, whereas manually replacing the variable with the value succeeds. Why?
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How to make functional rules not depend on an argument?
Consider the following:
rule = f[x] -> Sin[x]
if I now do, say:
f[y] /. rule
this does not work, because the rule wants ...
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Merging values of a list of rules where some keys occur more than once
I have a list of rules resembling
rules = {{a -> {1, 2, 3}}, {b -> {2, 3, 4}}, {c -> {3, 4, 5}, c -> {4, 5, 6}}}
How can I neatly rearrange this to ...
