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System of equations

DrilonShabani
10-Marble

System of equations

I need a little help. Why isn't this working... How am I supposed to solve the system (except using a matrix without units or even this method but without units)

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The problem is that Mathcad can't display a matrix or vector where the elements have different dimensions. This is exactly what your find command would force Mathcad to so (beta is of dimension length^-1, but the other elements are of dimension force*length^-1 (or mass*time^-2)).

The solution is not to evaluate the find command but to assign its results to a vector of variables which then can be displayed singly:

P.S.: Its not necessary to move the guesses to the top - I just did because I am used to

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The problem is that Mathcad can't display a matrix or vector where the elements have different dimensions. This is exactly what your find command would force Mathcad to so (beta is of dimension length^-1, but the other elements are of dimension force*length^-1 (or mass*time^-2)).

The solution is not to evaluate the find command but to assign its results to a vector of variables which then can be displayed singly:

P.S.: Its not necessary to move the guesses to the top - I just did because I am used to

Perfect.

Thank you very very much.

LucMeekes
23-Emerald III
(To:DrilonShabani)

And for a more generic solution you could do:

Then with:

You get:

Success!
Luc

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