On 9/6/10, William Porter <wmporter.omegapar at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am too inexperienced with Maxima to carry it much farther than what Paul
> has outlined. I have tried to use the find_root (<some expression>, en2, 10,
> 80); at the end of Paul's outline. Unfortunately I am not sure what to
> insert in for <some expression>. Guessing at what expression to enter, I
> have tried f1, ang, nIn, etc. but just guessing with no results.
Well, you had some expression in en2 for which you want
to find en2 such that the expression evaluates to 0.16 or
something like that. So you could set it up like this:
find_root (<expression in en2> - 0.16, en2, 10, 80);
HTH
Robert Dodier