grouping symbolic results in increment of the variable

[rdliquid]

Hi

Is there a way to group or sort the power terms of a symbolic calculation in the increase of the variable "s"

Example: constant term+ a*s+b*s^2+c*s^3+d*s^4+....+k*s^n; where "s" is a variable

Right now the grouping seems to be random. You have s^6, then you have s^7 then you have s^2 see below:

See the N1(s), the last equation of this work sheet attached

[Werner_E]

Your sheet doesn't show what your picture shows.

We don't have much control over the output of symbolic calculation in Prime  compared to symbolic math programs like Maple or Mathematica and also MatLab, which uses the same symbolic engine as Mathcad (but more up to date as they own it).

You may try the "collect,s" modifier. Eventually combined with "simplify" (obviously "simplify" before "collect", not after).

[LucMeekes]

This may work in Mathcad 15:

If needed with a small tweak.

Luc

[Werner_E]

It works in MC15 but the same results could be obtained using a simple symbolic evaluation, sometimes "simplify" or "expand" are required:

But  "Polynorm" fails at negative signs as do "simplify" or "expand". Thats the reason I suggested "collect"

[rdliquid · Accepted solution]

Hi Werner,

I am not sure why you are not seeing my worksheet with 

constant term+ a*s+b*s^2+c*s^3+d*s^4+....+k*s^n

I can see it when I downloaded from this thread.

Anyway, thanks for the helps. I tried your recommended approach and used "simplify" and it seem to work as compare to just an arrow--->

See below:

The advantage of using just ----> is all the s terms (s are variable and the rest are constant values) are factored outside the constants

Simplified works but then you have to manually group them 

Please see the worksheet attached. I hope you can see it

[Werner_E]

You already provide the summands splitted by the powers of s and you just want to see them again?
Then you could try "explicit,ALL"