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Hello,
I am working from a Naval Architecture book which gives a problem to which I want to use MatCAD Prime to go through the problem myself (as the book has no explanation).
The initial expression is:
KM=0.5T+B^2/12T
Where the expressions are:
KM is a naval arch term which represents the distance from the Keel of a ship to the Metacentre
B is the Breadth of the Ship
T is the Draught.
The book gives a plot of the above expression for a ship with a breadth (B) of 15 and shows how as T increases KM reduces to a point.
The book goes on to state that you can find the draught (T) when KM is at its lowest value by differentiating the above expression with respect to T and equating to zero. It then gives this as:
dKM/dT = 0.5-B^2/12T^2
and states in the example of a ship with B of 15 the answer would be 6.12.
I however cannot work out how this was derived or how to use MatCAD to solve such a problem.
Any advice warmly welcomed.
Andy
Solved! Go to Solution.
Here's one more (I'm limited to Prime express, so cannot do the symbolics):
success!
Luc
In short (I'm limited to Prime express, so cannot do the symbolics):
Glad to oblige
Thanks, Rich.
I am able to see that in your attachment (which I can open with Prime 3.1 Express); as long as I don't mess with any unsupported (by Express) equations it still shows the answers.
Luc
as long as I don't mess with any unsupported (by Express) equations it still shows the answers.
That's true. I haven't quite decided if I think that's a good feature of Prime or a bad one. I don't think it can do any harm, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
I share your doubt. I think Mathematica offers similar behaviour: it can store the answers with the file so you don't have to recalculate all when you re-open the notebook.
Luc
Hello to all!
Thank you so much for all the help, I really appreciate it!
As far as I can see these are all the correct answer but I have selected the last one as the correct answer as it has a file for me to refer to (I am a kinetic learner and learn best through re creating the sheet myself).
Thanks,
Andy