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Apply conditions on the solution of this trigonometric system?

Posted 10 years ago

Hi I'm looking for help to solve this problem. Well we can calculate the values of angles (alpha's) by enter image description here

but i need to impose these conditions

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Please help me out Regards

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POSTED BY: Muhammad Afzal
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With the following code starting from random initial points

eq = {1 - 2 Cos[5 w Degree] + 2 Cos[5 x Degree] - 2 Cos[5 y Degree] + 
    2 Cos[5 z Degree], 
   1 - 2 Cos[7 w Degree] + 2 Cos[7 x Degree] - 2 Cos[7 y Degree] + 
    2 Cos[7 z Degree], 
   1 - 2 Cos[11 w Degree] + 2 Cos[11 x Degree] - 2 Cos[11 y Degree] + 
    2 Cos[11 z Degree], 
   1 - 2 Cos[13 w Degree] + 2 Cos[13 x Degree] - 2 Cos[13 y Degree] + 
    2 Cos[13 z Degree]};
sol = FindRoot[eq == 0,
   Thread[{{w, x, y, z}, Sort@RandomReal[{0, 90}, 4]}]];
sol
eq /. sol

after a few attempts I found the neat solution {w -> 20., x -> 40., y -> 60., z -> 80.}

POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
Posted 10 years ago

It appears that the Norm of your function is minimized when w==0 Degree and x,y,z are as close to 90 Degree as possible. You can verify this by substituting various values of w,x,y,z. It might be possible that this is only a local minimum and there is one or more smaller minima elsewhere.

POSTED BY: Bill Simpson
Posted 10 years ago

NMinimize[{function,constraint}, vars] is shown in the help page.

There does not appear to be a solution where your four equations are approximately equal to zero, but this

NMinimize[
  {Norm[{
      1 - 2 Cos[5 w Degree] + 2 Cos[5 x Degree] - 2 Cos[5 y Degree] + 2 Cos[5 z Degree],
      1 - 2 Cos[7 w Degree] + 2 Cos[7 x Degree] - 2 Cos[7 y Degree] + 2 Cos[7 z Degree],
      1 - 2 Cos[11 w Degree] + 2 Cos[11 x Degree] - 2 Cos[11 y Degree] + 2 Cos[11 z Degree], 
      1 - 2 Cos[13 w Degree] + 2 Cos[13 x Degree] - 2 Cos[13 y Degree] + 2 Cos[13 z Degree]
    }], 
  w < x < y < z < 90 Degree
  }, {w, x, y, z}]

will let you add constraints to your problem.

POSTED BY: Bill Simpson
Posted 10 years ago

Thanks a lot Bill Simpson, there is a bit of problem occurring , that is the values of x,y & z are appearing same. they are not changing.

POSTED BY: Muhammad Afzal
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