Carl Love

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(In this Answer, I refer several times to Windows Task Manager (WTM). In order to apply this Answer to another operating systems (OS), you'll need to use that OS's equivalent to WTM. The names of the tasks may also differ on other OSs.)

Generally the size of an expression that can be handled by Maple's computational engine (aka "the kernel") is limited only by your system's available memory. Use WTM to check your available memory. If the percentage of memory in use is in the high nineties, then the whole system may be rather sluggish and unresponsive and you may need to explicitly kill some processes with WTM (or close them "naturally" if you have the patience to wait for that). You should either free up some memory by either closing some unrelated processes or closing some other open Maple worksheets (documents) or use WTM to kill the mserver.exe process that is consuming the most memory. The Maple GUI will display a message "Kernel connection has been lost. You should save this worksheet and restart Maple." You should save the worksheet, close it, and reopen it, but there is no need to restart Maple---your other open worksheets will be fine (if they are all using different kernels). 

The size of expression that can be displayed by Maple's Standard GUI is much more limited. If you're working with large expressions, you should be careful to end commands with a colon to avoid their display. If you accidentally enter a command that will display a large result, it could be that the kernel has finished computing the expression but the GUI has gotten stuck formatting it for display (or perhaps not stuck but taking an inordinate amount of time doing so). You can detect if this has happened by using WTM: no processes named mserver.exe will be consuming any processor. In that case, you need to kill the GUI with WTM. It will be a process named something like "Maple 18", "maplejava.exe", or "Java(TM) Platform SE binary". Find such a process that is consuming processor and kill it. This will unfortunately abruptly close (unsaved) all your open worksheets. Restart Maple, and from the File menu, select Recent Documents -> Restore Backup. This should open and restore all the worksheets. 

Try pressing Control+J.

If I understand your first question correctly, you have an expression (that I'll call ex), and you want to select its terms that contain k to the first power. That can be done by

select(t-> degree(t,k)=1, ex);

 

I have no advice regarding your second question.

You can set the relative error for an entire session by the setting the Digits environment variable. It's set to 10 by default. But what you want is akin to setting the absolute error for an entire session. There's no easy way to do that (maybe no way at all?). However, you can apply fnormal to any individual expression containing floating-point constants, and it'll turn the small ones into zero.

If you use the hardware-floating-point environment, certain very small numbers will underflow and automatically become 0. This environment is used in the background by default by many (most?) numerical commands when you have Digits set to 15 or less. For example, I noticed that you used exp(-10000) in a call to pdsolve in a recent Question. We can see below that this will be treated as zero:

evalhf(exp(-10000));

     0.

No. That is, I believe, well beyond the capability of any current CAS. Even curves can only be parameterized when f(x,y) has certain special forms, such as polynomial.

The value under the square root sign is negative for any real rho. Therefore both h(rho) and its integral are purely imaginary for any real range of rho. We could plot these imaginary values if you want: Simply replace v(rho) with Im(v(rho)) in the plot command.

In Maple 2015, I tried with the default method= rkf45, and with method= rosenbrock and I had no trouble. Did you try the default method? I confirm that dverk78 and lsode don't work for this problem.

If you'd followed today's discussion in the followups to your prior Question, you would've tried is. It's the most basic command for testing the mathematical equality (over the complex numbers) of expressions. Unfortunately, testeq is very limited in the expressions that it can handle.

is(C45=C54);

     false

(I'm a bit disturbed that you ignored Kitonum's advice (in your prior Question) that you not use I as a variable. I had to substitute J for I below to get meaningful results.)

Here's an explicit proof that the two expressions are fundamentally different: We evaluate each one setting all derivatives and variables to Pi/4, then simplifying.

C45a:= subs(I= J, C45):
C45b:= evalindets(convert(C45a, rational), specfunc(diff), freeze):
C45c:= evalindets(C45b, name, ()-> Pi/4):
simplify(C45c);

C54a:= subs(I= J, C54):
C54b:= evalindets(convert(C54a, rational), specfunc(diff), freeze):
C54c:= evalindets(C54b, name, ()-> Pi/4):
simplify(C54c);

 

RootFinding:-NextZero performs a job similar to fsolve (for real functions only). It's a little trickier to use because you have to carefully adjust its options or else it'll miss roots. But, if you want all the roots in a given interval, it may be a better choice than fsolve. Here's the first 20 positive roots:

K:= N-> KummerM(1/2-sqrt(2*N)/4, 1, sqrt(2*N)):

R:= table([0=0]):
for k to 20 while R[k-1]<10000 do
     R[k]:= RootFinding:-NextZero(K, R[k-1], maxdistance= 10000, guardDigits= 3)
od:

convert(R, list)[2..];

[3.65679345776329, 22.3047305506807, 56.9605153816721, 107.620271629881, 174.282057717514, 256.945030311759, 355.608766328753, 470.273028271534, 600.937671278859, 747.602601263178, 910.267754050297, 1088.93308412430, 1283.59855815621, 1494.26415108509, 1720.92984364050, 1963.59562071823, 2222.26147028210, 2496.92738260118, 2787.59334970751, 3094.25936500266]

Another root-finding command that's supposed to find all the roots in an interval is Student:-Calculus1:-Roots. However, in this case, it only finds 4 of the first 20.

I can't tell what you're doing wrong since you didn't post your code or upload a worksheet. I'll assume that by "deriving" you mean finding the derivative. (The verb form of derivative in mathematical English is, oddly enough, differentiate rather than derive.) To differentiate L with respect to x, enter the command

diff(L, x)

 

Here's a procedure for it:

A:= M->
     <<Matrix(M) | -<seq(1/k, k= M..1, -1)> | Matrix(M, (i,j)-> `if`(i+j=M+1, 1/j, 0))>,
      Vector[row]([1$M, Pi, 1$M]),
      <Matrix(M, (i,j)-> `if`(i+j=M+1, 1/i, 0)) | <seq(1/k, k= 1..M)> | Matrix(M)>
     >/Pi:

There is a serious bug that VectorCalculus integrals consistenly ignore the sign, even in simple cases. For example:

VectorCalculus:-PathInt(x^2, [x,y]= Line(<0,0>, <1,1>));

VectorCalculus:-PathInt(x^2, [x,y]= Line(<1,1>, <0,0>));

Your ODE has a singularity at r=0. Note the 1/r factor. So you can't specify boundary or initial conditions at 0.

If your worksheet is short, please include it in your Question as well as attaching it. I think that that facilitates the discussion.

Where you have length(v), you should have numelems(v).

Making that correction, your code still produces incorrect results. But I don't understand your algorithm so I can't correct it. One thing I find surprising, and probably erroneous, is for j to 26. Why 26?

To plot the curves, do

plot([seq(<v|P[..,k]>, k= 1..10)]);

But, as it stands, the curves are constant.

The source of your problem is incorrect 2D input. To see it and correct it, select with the mouse your assignment statement that defines B[22]. Right click to bring up the context menu, then select 2-D Math -> Convert To -> 1-D Math Input. Then you will that this assignment statement is

B[22] := Q^%T . `#mi("M")` . `#mi("Q")`+`#mi("m")`[L1]*T[b]^%T . S[L1]^%T . S[L1] . T[b]+Q^%T . `#msubsup(mi("R"),mi("L1",fontstyle = "normal"),mi("b",fontstyle = "normal"))` . I__L1 . `#msubsup(mi("R"),mi("L1",fontstyle = "normal"),mi("b",fontstyle = "normal"))`^%T . Q+m[L2]*T[b]^%T . S[L2]^%T . S[L2] . T[b]+Q^%T . `#msubsup(mi("R"),mi("L2",fontstyle = "normal"),mi("b",fontstyle = "normal"))` . I__L2 . `#msubsup(mi("R"),mi("L2",fontstyle = "normal"),mi("b",fontstyle = "normal"))`^%T . Q;

The first term needs to be changed from

Q^%T . `#mi("M")` . `#mi("Q")`

to simply

Q^%T.M.Q

After making that change, the IsMatrixShape command (with the mapped expand) will instantly return true.

To avoid making mistakes like this in the future, I suggest that you switch to using 1D input.

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