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June 10, 2025
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Iteration: HOW?

  • June 10, 2025
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Hello newbie here, (user of Mathcad Prime 10.0)
I wanted to ask if anyone can explain how to use normal Iteration in Mathcad. Like, I have different equations and I want to create 5 loops or "intervals" to get my answer. 
I always used "solve block" for iteration, but now this won't work. 
I want to create something like this:

 

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I tried asking AI but it only gave me nonsense. I never used this type of Iteration on Mathcad before, only on Excel. 

Thanks for any help. Sorry if I wrote a little bit wobbly, English is not my native language. 

Best regards,

Saro : )

Best answer by SO_10687563

I honestly had nothing better than this picture of equations I have to use to get the answer, every example of tutors has the same mistake of values, so I thought maybe that’s the way it has to be written. I know it was not the best example, sorry for that. Even the Excels that they use have the same mistake.
Our tutors tell us to use Excel, but I know that Mathcad should be able to do it to. They just don’t teach us Mathcad, sadly. I tried to use the solve-block, because I really didn’t know how to use intervals in Mathcad. Mine never gave me an answer. I also tried to use the table method with matrix but it never showed anything, since I didn’t use the “i”. All that knowledge I got from helpdesk, but nothing ever worked.

I wrote “i=0..6 but this didn’t really do anything. I think it’s a special “i” that I have to figure out.


Thank you for your replay, I appreciate it.

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
June 10, 2025

You don't show which differential equation(s) you intend to solve.

 

Why do you think that a solve block with "odesolve" does not work? Show us what you have tried to do.

 

Do you really need the intermediate steps as shown in your picture or wouldn't the final result, a numeric solution function, suffice?

 

I would suggest that you set up a worksheet as far as you can get and post it here.

 

BTW, the table your picture shows indicates that "A" should be of unit meter - shouldn't it be m² ? Otherwise there would be a unit mismatch!

Furthermore, if g should be the constant of gravity, h.g would not be dimensionless but rather would be a length (e.g. with unit meter)
Your picture does not show the values of "s" and "m" and "Q". I suspect that it should be s=0.7 meter, m=2.3 and Q=7.318 m³/s (approx.), correct?

 

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
June 10, 2025

Addendum

 

If you really would need the exact table your picture shows, one way to achieve that is the usage of a range variable:

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The differences in the values may be due to me not guessing the values for s, m and Q totally correct.

BTW, even though its possible to do so, its not a good idea to name variables the same as predefined constants or units. I am talking about the usage of variable names like "m" and "s" which correspond to the units 'meter' and 'seconds'.

 

Once the vectors of values are created you can combine them into a table if that's needed.

Werner_E_1-1749582028904.png

 

To calculate the values of Rm, etc. which are shown in the right column in your picture, you would need a different range variable "j" which starts at 1 because the calculation of these values use the index i-1. Doing so will set the element with index 0 (which is never calculated) to zero.

Here for example the calculation of vector "Rm":

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SO_1068756310-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
June 11, 2025

Werner, you are literally a genius. This looks definitely correct, but I was never able to set the "i". I always wrote it, but nothing happened. Everything showed up as an Error. And the values have been written like that on every Excel or page of tutors, so I thought this might need to be written like that. But you are correct "A" is "m²" and so on.

I also didn't know that for the "Rm" I have to use a new vector. So thank you. 
I will try to figure out how to put the "i" and "j" so that Mathcad sees them as vector elements.

I thank you so much!! This is so helpful. I appreciate you : )

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
June 11, 2025

There is nothing special about the "i". It just a normal name used for a range variable.

You type i:0..6 and that all. You may also specify the second value by typing i:0,1..6 but if no second value is provided, Prime automatically assumes a step width ( = second value minus first value) of 1. See -> Range Variables

The range variable can now be used to create the necessary data vectors.

Not that the range name "i" is used as vector/matrix index, NOT as literal index!! See -> Index Operator

 

The reason I suggested a different range for Rm etc. is because their calculation access an element with index i-1. As "i" starts with zero, this would mean that you would be trying to access an element with index -1 which does not exist and so you would get an error.

 

To be able to solve the ODE using a solve block with odesolve you would have to provide the ODE in the usual math notation.

 

I attach the Prime 10 sheet for your reference.

 

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Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
June 11, 2025

I can't easily extract your problem from the picture, there are a lot og undefined terms.

Mathcad has always had the ability to implement a step-wise solutions; calculating the next state of a set of parameters from the preceding values.  Attached is a simple example.  The equation in yellow is the magic.

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SO_1068756310-MarbleAuthorAnswer
10-Marble
June 11, 2025

I honestly had nothing better than this picture of equations I have to use to get the answer, every example of tutors has the same mistake of values, so I thought maybe that’s the way it has to be written. I know it was not the best example, sorry for that. Even the Excels that they use have the same mistake.
Our tutors tell us to use Excel, but I know that Mathcad should be able to do it to. They just don’t teach us Mathcad, sadly. I tried to use the solve-block, because I really didn’t know how to use intervals in Mathcad. Mine never gave me an answer. I also tried to use the table method with matrix but it never showed anything, since I didn’t use the “i”. All that knowledge I got from helpdesk, but nothing ever worked.

I wrote “i=0..6 but this didn’t really do anything. I think it’s a special “i” that I have to figure out.


Thank you for your replay, I appreciate it.

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