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Help me to solve this equation with Solve command

Posted 12 years ago
POSTED BY: dang chau
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Posted 12 years ago
POSTED BY: Bill Simpson

(1) If you do not provide full code to replicate the example then it is impossible to really say much, short of retyping from an image (which I for one will not do).

(2) You will have a better chance if you make the upper bound an explicit number, 10, in this case, rather than encode it in the equations. Solve sees the equations but Sum does not, and Solve needs Sum to fully evaluate (to something explicit rather than a Sum).

(3) It is not a good idea to use N as a variable name, since it is also a heavily used function in Mathematica.

POSTED BY: Daniel Lichtblau
Posted 12 years ago

Thank you for your comments.

My original equation is

y = Sum_{i=0}{N} (v[i] - v0/Xs * (Xs - x[i])^3)^2

First, I get the differential for the Xs variable

y1 = D[y,Xs]

Then, I'd like to solve the above equation for Xs by using Solve command:

Solve[y1,Xs,Reals]

I also try to solve the original equation by hand, however i still got the final result because it is to complicated long equation.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me in working this problem.

POSTED BY: dang chau
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