Derivative of a vector-argument function
- September 16, 2012
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Hello!
Could you please help me as I am a newbie in the Mathcad world.
For a university homework, I was trying to solve some simple linear programming tasks (which I did).
However, something goes wrong when I am trying to find the partial derivative of a function which I define as R(y):= cT * y.
And 'c' is a 2D vector.
y is supposed to be from R^2, but I guess, MathCAD doesn't just get it and treats y as a scalar. Am I right? Is there a way to tell MathCAD that y is indeed a 2D vector?
My objective: I want to find d/dy_1 and d/dy_2 of R separately, or at least get a 2D vector containing these derivatives at a particular point.
What should I do? Is there a way to do it without redefining the function?
Please see the attached file for the details.
Thank you so much in advance!
Yours,
P.

