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1-Visitor
November 16, 2018
Question

Need help with find a value

  • November 16, 2018
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I am trying to solve an equation using find but it seems not working. it says that "this variable is undefined". Really appreciate your help. The file is attached.

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3 replies

19-Tanzanite
November 16, 2018

With Find you need a Given, together with an initial guess for M.  However, that still doesn't seem to work here (doesn't want to converge to a solution.  Luckily this is easy to represent as a quadratic which is simple to solve:

 

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Alan

19-Tanzanite
November 16, 2018

You can get it to work with Given Find by first dividing through by (0.8SMYS)^2.  (Note: you also need to make sigma.h multiply the third term.  As originally written it had no multiply sign, so MCAD thought the third term was a function.)

 

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Alan

 

21-Topaz II
November 16, 2018

Hi,

 

Here is the solve block to get same answer.

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Cheers

Terry

21-Topaz II
November 16, 2018

Hi,

Oops forgot the file.

Cheers Terry