Help with For loops

[rayakannu]

Can someone help me with this loop? I cannot seem to get the loop working for the for statement

[RichardJ]

What exactly do you want the program to return? You pass i as a parameter to the program (i.e the program is a function definition), but i is defined as a loop variable, which overwrites any value of i passed as a parameter. In each if statement you have a local function definition (i.e. local to the program), and outside the loop you have two more local function definitions. A function definition does not create any numerical values though, it just defines the function. Do you want to return the values of alpha (case 1) or I (case 2) for all the values of i (this is what I suspect you want) or do you want to return one or more function names (which is possible, but since you have to ask this question, I suspect is not what you want).

[rayakannu]

Richard, thanks for the response.

I am trying to evaluate the moment of inertia along the length of a column, which is divided into 8 elements. I have derived two expression for the diameter if:-

1. The first half of the column 0<x<l/2

2. The second half of the column l/2<x<l

I am trying the find the I value at each node, and then plot a graph along the length of the column for various values of alpha

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

See if this helps:

[rayakannu]

Fred, that was excellent. Appreciate your help

[rayakannu]

Fred, I have modified my original program in the attached file. Can you please advise me why it is not working?

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

Your program block is still only returning the last calculation thru the for loop.

[rayakannu]

Fred, can you please help me to correct the program I wrote so that know what you were saying?

Thanks

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

Open the file I attached (Untitled A_2) and read the notes.

[rayakannu]

Fred, did you notice that for j=1, the result is 0? this should not be the case.

[Fred_Kohlhepp · Accepted solution]

Mathcad index vectors starting from 0.

You wrote j := 1 to n, so Mathcad filled the zeroth slot with 0.

[rayakannu]

Ok, thanks you very much

[Tmetcalf]

Good day Ramani,

Looks like Fred Kohlhepp‌ has you up and running (thanks Fred); if so, would you please mark his answer as correct so we know you are all set?

Cheers,

Toby