How to solve this equation?

Hi everyone,
I want to solve this equation in Matlab. Until now I have the following code:
a=18
b=60
c=76.7
syms x
solx=solve('cos(x).*(a.*sin(x)+b)=c','x')
I get next error: Check for missing argument or incorrect argument data type in call to function 'solve'.
Error in Untitled (line 8)
solx=solve('cos(x).*(a.*sin(x)+b)=c','x')
I dont know what it is wrong, can anybody help me?
Any help is appriciated.

4 Comments

Example from function solve in documentation.
syms a b c x
eqn = a*x^2 + b*x + c == 0 % equals to sign ==
eqn = cos(x).*(a.*sin(x) + b) == c;
solve(eqn, x)
Thank you so much, that works.
i have also this error
with this function
[V1,V2,V3]=solve('(V1-V2)/R1 = Is + 2*(V3-V2)/R3','(V2 - V1)/R1 + V2/R2 + (V2-V3)/R3 = 0','(V3-V2)/R3 + V3/R4 + 2*(V3-V2)/R3=0','V1','V2','V3')
Mario Malic
Mario Malic on 4 Sep 2020
Edited: Mario Malic on 4 Sep 2020
You're missing double equals sign in your equations.

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a=18
b=60
c=76.7
syms x
eqn = cos(x).*(a.*sin(x)+b) == c
solx=solve(eqn)

2 Comments

Thank you!
The sintax is correct here but it is of no help to find the solution, because there is no real-type one, and "solve" refuses working with the complex type. To find the solution you should reformulate the problem as a system of two real-type equations for the real and imaginary parts being two unknown variables.

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