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Problem in expressing the whole one equation in terms of one variable

Posted 11 years ago
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POSTED BY: Woo Young Kang
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POSTED BY: Woo Young Kang

I didn't run the code and so don't have an output to share. Of course the expression may not be analytically solvable for epsilon. Looking at your expression, it appears to be the difference between the ratios of two quadratic expressions in epsilon. So it is likely to be a quartic equation when expanded out. The solution to the general quartic polynomial is quite a mess, and the coefficients of the terms in the original quartic are very messy--so your final result will be a very large expression. Perhaps you want to take a different approach to whatever use you are planning to make for this?

POSTED BY: David Reiss

I see by looking at the internals of your notebook that you are using Mathematica version 7. So, I believe that syntax highlighting may not have been a feature back at version 7.

I have checked your notebook using my approach in both version 8, 9 and 10 (I no longer have version 7 on hand) and confirm that my analysis is probably right.

I am attaching a notebook with the syntax highlighted brackets removed. This may not be what you desired in terms of the expression grouping so you will have to check. I did this in Version 8. I also fixed an odd syntax problem involving a subtraction--this may have been due to invisible characters, I am not sure.

See the attached notebook

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POSTED BY: David Reiss

Your code has a mixture of StandardForm and TraditionalForm content mixed together. Because of this the syntax highlighting is not showing the bracket mismatches. Click on the cell bracket of the cell with your Solve function to select that cell. Then click on the menu item Format>ClearFormatting to remove the mixture of formatting. When you do this you will see where there are unmatched parentheses (they will be colored pink) and then you can figure out where to add or remove parentheses to produce the expression that you need to work with.

I hope this helps.

--David

POSTED BY: David Reiss
Posted 11 years ago

I do really appreciate your help. However, even though I followed your steps, still nothing changed with my error messages..I could not identify any colored brackets at all but the errors remained the same..In addition, I re-edited the error message again since the contents I uploaded before seemed to be a mistakenly cut-off version of the first error, but the contents remains the same...

POSTED BY: Woo Young Kang
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