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Solve for Angle in Radians

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
July 11, 2017
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Hi,

I have an expression like:

tan (alpha) - alpha = 0.48

where 'alpha' is angle in radians, and want to calculate the Value of Alpha.

How to solve this using Mathcad?

Pl Help!

Regards,

Shashank

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LucMeekes

23-Emerald IV

Set a guess value first:
alpha:=1
Then use the root solver:
alpha:=root (tan (alpha)-alpha-0.48,alpha)
To display the result:
alpha=

Success!
Luc

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-MFra-

21-Topaz II

Hi ssharma,

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

You have to be aware that your task has an infinite number of soltions:You may use the symbolics but you will always get the very same solution even if you use something like the "assume" command to limit alpha to a certain range. An old bug in the symbolics.

So you will have to resort to numerical methods and you have the choice amongst two.

The "root" command usually works pretty well and there are two ways of using it - provinding an interval or providing a guess value. Usually different guesses would give you different solutions, but in case of your equation we get the very same result most of the times - crazy.The other numeric method is using a solve block with "Find". Here again you have to provide a guess value which seems to have more impact on the outcome this time

24-Ruby IV

25-Diamond I

Has anybody an explanation for the different solutions Valery and I get with the guesses 3 and -5?

I am using Prime 3.0 and TOL is by default 10^-3.

Valery sure used a newer version at which setting of TOL?

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AlanStevens

19-Tanzanite

I get the following in MC15:

I can't explain the difference between the implicit and explicit vectorisations!

TOL is the default 10^-3; however, setting it much tighter didn't alter anything.

Alan

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

Interesting effects we experience here.

Here is a nother one (done in MC15). I always thought that "root" would use the same LM algorithm as "Find" in the solve block (not in Prime as here we have the Knitro algorithms). Obviously root works in a different way, not sure how. Most of the times we get 0,966. Only with some selected guess values we get a different result.

The algorithm in the solve block for "Find" was set to "Levenberg-Marquardt" (default). "Conjugate Gradient" and "Quasi Newton" give the very same result with exception of guess value 0 - here "Conjugate Gradient" returns 0,966 and no errror.

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ValeryOchkov

24-Ruby IV

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