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- From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: ODE problem...
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 14:53:20 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- Message-ID: <1eg9p0INNcbe@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- References: <israel.722130237@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Reply-To: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
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- There should be an award for Robert Israel for consistantly clear,
- intelligent posts, which always are about math and always polite.
-
- (I, myself, will have to settle for "Mr. Congeniality".)
-
- However, there is a small error in his solution to the
- following problem. The solutions still works just fine, but one
- of the constants is different:
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- In article <israel.722130237@unixg.ubc.ca> israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert
- B. Israel) writes:
- > >(x and y are functions of t, a is a constant)
- > >x'=(a)(x)cost+(a)(y)sint
- > >y'=(a)(x)sint-(a)(y)cost.
- >
- > Quite a neat problem! I hope nobody was sadistic enough to
- > assign it as homework.
- >
- > First go to polar coordinates: x = r cos(s), y = r sin(s)
- > (I'm too lazy to type "theta").
- > (1) r' = (x x' + y y')/r = r cos(t-2s)
- there's a missing "a" here ^
-
- [....]
- > --
- > Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
-
- Bart Goddard
-