How do you separate the roots of a function?
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For example, I wrote the following:
% a b c and d are input from the user
qx = [a b c d]; %a*x^3 + b*x^2 + c*x + d
derivative_qx = [3*a 2*b c]; %3*a*x^2 + 2*b*x + c
r = roots(derivative_qx);
disp(r);
If there are two roots how do I obtain the value of each separately so they are assigned to two different variables, such as r1 and r2. I was only able to find the roots function searching around, which displays both together.
Thanks
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Michael Haderlein
on 15 Oct 2014
Actually, this is exactly how you should do it. Don't assign it to variables like r1, r2. It will be much more difficult to work with these variables than to work with the array r containing the same values.
If you really want to go with r1...r2: As the order of your polynomial is hard-coded (2nd order), you can also hard-code this part such as
r1=r(1);
r2=r(2);
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend it.
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Andrei Bobrov
on 15 Oct 2014
qx = input('input as double array [1 x 4] = ');
dq = polyder(qx);
r = roots(dq);
use r(1) as r1 and r(2) as r2
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Manoj
on 22 Apr 2018
% q1 %% Section 1a % Define crank length a=1;b=2;c=4;d=5;theta2=30; % Define input parameters and anonymous functions x1=120;xu=165;xi=120;xi_1=110;delta=0.01;precision=0.0001; f= % Student can choose one of these methods, all works % nr = newraph(f, df, xi, precision); % sc = secant(f, xi, xi_1, precision); % ms = modisecant(f, xi, pert, precision); % fzv = fzero(f, xi); % fzb = fzero(f, [xl, xu]);
%
%% Section 1b
% Define crank length
% Define input parameters for function
% Solve for root, for all ang2
% Plot the relation between the input angles and the output angles
%% Section 1C
%% Section 1D
% Write the result into text file
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