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Re: How to calculate the partial derivative?
Posted:
Nov 21, 2012 4:58 AM
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On 11/21/2012 2:17 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 12:15 AM, Tang Laoya wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am trying to calculate the partial derivative by mathematica, I have the following commands:
>> L1=a1+b1*x+c1*y;
>> L2=a2+b2*x+c2*y;
>> L3=a3+b3*x+c3*y;
>>
>> NN=L1*L2;
>>
>> DNx=D[NN,x];
>>
>> I got the following result:
>> DNex=b2 (a1+b1 x+c1 y)+b1 (a2+b2 x+c2 y)
>>
>> How to do to have the following result?
>>
>> DNex=b2*L1 + b1 * L2
>>
>
> The problem is that you did not use equations, but used expresions.
> Hence in your case L1 is now 'a1+b1*x+c1*y' and similarly with L2.
>
> To do this right, I'd write things as equations, and use rules, like
> this:
>
> --------------------------
> Clear[L1, L2, a1, b2, x, c1, y, a2, b2, c2, lhs, rhs]
> eq1 = L1 == a1 + b1*x + c1*y;
> eq2 = L2 == a2 + b2*x + c2*y;
> lhs[eq_] := eq /. (lhs_ == rhs_) -> lhs;
> rhs[eq_] := eq /. (lhs_ == rhs_) -> rhs;
>
> NN = rhs[eq1]*rhs[eq2];
> DNx = D[NN, x]
> ----------------------------
>
> which gives what you showed
>
> b2 (a1+b1 x+c1 y)+b1 (a2+b2 x+c2 y)
>
> Now it is easy to use the rules to get what you want
>
> ------------------
> DNx/.{rhs[eq1]->lhs[eq1],rhs[eq2]->lhs[eq2]}
> ---------------------
>
> which gives
>
> b2 L1+b1 L2
>
After thinking more about this, another way to do this,
and to keep from having to write rhs[eq] and rhs[eq] all
the time, which is not as nice looking as L1 and L2 etc..
and can be harder to read if there are many equations, is
to use rules.
Like this:
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Clear["Global`*"];
rule1 = {L1 -> a1 + b1*x + c1*y, L2 -> a2 + b2*x + c2*y}
rule2 = (Last[#] -> First[#]) & /@ rule1
NN = (L1*L2) /. rule1;
DNx = D[NN, x]
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Which gives
b2 (a1 + b1 x + c1 y) + b1 (a2 + b2 x + c2 y)
Now to get back, use rule2 above, which is the reverse
of rule1
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In[185]:= DNx/.rule2
Out[185]= b2 L1+b1 L2
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The advantage of this method again is that one used L1 and L2,
instead of rhs[eq1], rhs[eq2] etc.. which is more clear.
--Nasser
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