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Wojtek
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5/7/12
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Calculating 1st derivative with a parameter
Posted:
May 6, 2012 10:21 AM
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Hello,
in my program I want to calculate the 1st derivative of a function y (it's a function of 'x1'). Let's say I want to check if the 1st derivative of this function in some specific point is smaller then 0.05. I have:
syms x1;
y = ( x1 - za )*( x1 - zb )*( x1 - zc )*( x1 - zd ); %my function, all the parameters like 'za' were previously declared
dydx=diff(y,x1,1);
x_val=1;
dydx_val=subs(dydx,x1,x_val);
k2 = solve(dydx_val);
dydx_val =double(k2);
if (dydx_val<0.05)
remember=x_val;
end
unfortunately the derivative is not calculated. I get information:
Warning: 1 equations in 0 variables.
Warning: Explicit solution could not be found.
and when I try to display dydx_val i get:
dydx_val =
[]
I tried different methods, none of them was good (although I could do something wrong). I will be grateful for suggestions how can I calculate 1st derivative in a specific point and have the value of this derivative in double.
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