How can I get Maple to simplify expressions into more meaningful forms?

For example, 

xc1 := -(2*Q*R1 + sqrt(4*Q^2*R1*RL - R1^2 + 2*R1*RL - RL^2))*R1/(4*Q^2*R1 + R1 - RL)

The numerator, under the radical, is more meaningful as sqrt(4 Q^2 R1 RL-(R1-RL)^2).

Similarly, the denominator can be simplified to Rs(4 Q^2+1)-RL.  

How do I get Maple to get me there?

After I just updated to Physics 871, my main worksheet which allready has for long time now:

Physics:-Latex:-UseColor := false;  
Physics:-Latex:-UseImaginaryUnit:=i;

Now I get 

The reason I use Physics:-Latex:-UseImaginaryUnit:=i; is to make the Latex use i for complex number in Latex instead of I

What is now the correct way to use these settings with the new Physics update? if I do not use them, then compelx I  will still show as I whcih I do not want. I want lower case i

I could add interface(imaginaryunit=i); in place of Physics:-Latex:-UseImaginaryUnit:=i; and that work for the latex, making the Latex generate i. But this solution now makes the User interface no longer accept I  as complex number any more and must be typed as lower case, which is not what I want.

That is why I was using Physics:-Latex:-UseImaginaryUnit:=i; This keeps the user interface complex number as Uppercase, but let the latex generated be lower case.

I feel I am doing something wrong, but do not see it. Made sure I use Physics:-Latex on everything now.

Please see below 2 worksheets. One using the 871 version and one using 865 version.
 

Download latex_871.mw
 

Download latex_865.mw

New error seems to have been introduced 

restart;
expr:=arccos(1/x);
Physics:-Latex(expr);

it seems to happen with the inverse trig functions when there is a fraction inside.

Do others have the same issue? I am currently using  869.  Maple 2020.1

Rolling back Physics version one at a time, I found the version this happened at. It was OK in version 865, but gives the error starting at version 866.

Hopefully this should make it easy to find the code change which caused it using source control diff.

As Latex improves in Maple (thanks to Physics:-Latex), I'd like to suggest not using \rm and replacing it with \mathrm.

\rm is now obsolete for long time. Reference: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107186/how-to-write-norm-which-adjusts-its-size

 In addition, some Latex classes give warning or error when using it and workarounds are needed. For an example

\documentclass{scrbook}%notice the class is not article.
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
${\rm e}^{-t}$
\end{document}

When compiled using lualatex foo4.tex gives

(base) >lualatex foo4.tex
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020)
 restricted system commands enabled.
(./foo4.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 5
 L3 programming layer <2020-08-07> (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls
Document Class: scrbook 2020/07/22 v3.31 KOMA-Script document class (book)
(/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrkbase.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbase.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrlfile.sty))) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/tocbasic.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrsize11pt.clo) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/typearea.sty)) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty)) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfmode.def) (./foo4.aux) (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)

! Class scrbook Error: undefined old font command `\rm'.

See the scrbook class documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...MAClassName  Error: undefined old font command `\string \rm '.

See the \KOMAClassName  class documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help\@err@
                                                                                                                                                                                                        
l.7 ${\rm
        e}^{-t}$
?

And Maple generates lots of these. For example

Physics:-Latex(exp(-t))
 
          {\rm e}^{-t}

mathrm works and give same output. Here is an example, where now I change the class to article to make it compile 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}

${\rm e}^{-t}$

$\mathrm{e}^{-t}$

$e^{-t}$

\end{document}

gives

The first is \rm, the second is mathrm and the last is the default with no modification.

Do others see any problem if this change could be made to Maple's Latex?

I am using Maple 2020.1 and Physics  867

One forum had a topic related to such a platform. ( Edited: the video is no longer available.)

The manufacturer calls the three-degrees platform, that is, having three degrees of freedom. Three cranks rotate, and the platform is connected to them by connecting rods through ball joints. The movable beam (rocker arm) has torsion springs.  I counted 4 degrees of freedom, because when all three cranks are locked, the platform remains mobile, which is camouflaged by the springs of the rocker arm. Actually, the topic on the forum arose due to problems with the work of this platform. Neither the designers nor those who operate the platform take into account this additional fourth, so-called parasitic degree of freedom. Obviously, if we will to move the rocker with the locked  cranks , the platform will move.
Based on this parasitic movement and a similar platform design, a very simple device is proposed that has one degree of freedom and is, in fact, a spatial linkage mechanism. We remove 3 cranks, keep the connecting rods, convert the rocker arm into a crank and get such movements that will not be worse (will not yield) to the movements of the platform with 6 degrees of freedom. And by changing the length of the crank, the plane of its rotation, etc., we can create simple structures with the required design trajectories of movement and one degree of freedom.
Two examples (two pictures for each example). The crank rotates in the vertical plane (side view and top view)
PLAT_1.mw


and the crank rotates in the horizontal plane (side view and top view).

The program consists of three parts. 1 choice of starting position, 2 calculation of the trajectory, 3 design of the picture.  Similar to the programm  in this topic.

Any idea why

if 2+89^(1/2)>0 then
   print("yes");
else
   print("no");
fi;

gives

Since 

evalf(2+89^(1/2))

is 11.4339.

I tried in Mathematica, and it works there

If[2 + 89^(1/2) > 0, Print["Yes"], Print["No"]]

What is the correct way to do this in Maple? i.e. to check that a numerical value is >0 ?

This is done in code, where the value I am doing this check on are known to be numeric, but I do not know what form they will be, I just know they will contain no floating point numbers. Only exact numbers.

The problem is the 89^(1/2). Maple knows it is >0 

is(89^(1/2)>0)

        true

but 

if (89)^(1/2)>0 then
   print("yes");
else
   print("no");
fi;

May be because 89 is prime. Should I replace my if with is for this check? 

interface(version)
Standard Worksheet Interface, Maple 2020.1, Windows 10, July 30 

   2020 Build ID 1482634

Physics:-Version()
The "Physics Updates" version in the MapleCloud is 867 and is 

   the same as the version installed in this computer, created 

   2020, November 12, 9:14 hours Pacific Time.

Hi, 

I often need to draw several curves on the same figure and the question of which colors to choose to distinguish them is crucial. 
In particular when these curves depend on a parameter I would like to color them by using a "regular" change of color.
The trick I use is this one
 

# here I want to plot N=10 different curves

N := 10:

# step 1: generate a list of colours using colorscheme
# (I was hoping for 10 levels of colors but I got 19)

plot(x, x=0..1, colorscheme=["Gold", "Blue"], numpoints=N):
MyColors := op([1,2, 2], %);
M := numelems(MyColors[..,1]);

# step 2: do the plots of interest, for instance

plots:-display(
  seq(
    plot(m*x^2, x=0..1, color=ColorTools:-Color([entries(MyColors[round(m/N*M)], nolist)])), 
    m=1..N
  )
);

My question is: How can we make that MyColors be a matrix whose the number of rows equal N (this to avoid the round(m/N*M) operation)?
(I will accept any other strategy)

Thanks in advance

I am wondering if there are examples of agent-based models in economics domain that have been implemented in Maple.

Any infomration/source is more than welcome!

Thanks in advance

I actually want to numerically solve Karhunen-Loeve Decomposition, which is reduced to homogenous Fredholm integral equation second kind when the kernel is the function of correlation of variables, by using any procedures (Galerkin is better if it is availabe). FYI, with "intsolve" I just got f(x)=0. 

When this question was asked here earlier, I neglected to suggest or to emphasize two further items.  Now, on revising Mathematics for Chemistry with [Maple], I recognise that I should have included these two objectives for inclusion in Maple 2021.

- an extended and improved spreadsheet with symbolic capability; I suspect that Maple was the only software for symbolic computation to include such a facility, which sadly has become deprecated, for no obvious reason.

- a much extended capability to solve integral equations; publications dating from 1976 -- i.e. before Maple! -- have shown what is possible; Maple's capabilities for differential equations might still be superior, although the competition is becoming close, so further efforts in the development of both differential and integral equations are timely and appropriate.  Related to differential equations is naturally the extension of capabilities of special functions, both to extend present functions and to produce new functions, such as those of Lame.

The uploaded worksheet contains a copy of figure of a pencil from a geometry book, followed by a failed attempt to code Maple to produce the same figure.

The book containing the figure gives no indication of how to code for the figure. Can the figure be produced in Maple?

Respondents will have to establish their own path to DirectSearch.

Pencil.mw

I have Maple solve a system of equations.  I then want to assign the result to the different variables for use later in the worksheet.  How do I do this?
 

First, all I want to do is assign the solution value for C1 to C1.  Not being able to do this, I try to assign C1 to "different" variable c1, but the assignment is C1~=.66667* Ceq, instead of just the value of C1.  Later, I then try to substitute the value of Ceq, to get the solution for c1, and instead of just getting the value, I get  that C1= 13.33x10^-8 is assigned to C1sol, again instead of just the value, 13.33x10^-8.  How do I just assign the values to these variables instead of the expressions?

Thank you.

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i have ode system of two dependent variables y and x  and one independent varibale time. how can i find explicit expression between y and x? 

 

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I am a newbie in Maple! I tried both ThermophysicalData and its CoolProp package to find saturation pressure of vapor for given air-water mixture temperature.

I want to calculate water vapor density in air or simply Absolute humidity (kg/m3)

But i can not see any meaningful function or combination of functions/properties in CoolProp to give such output.

P_w in CoolProp, HApropSI takes this as input only that is not usefule either way inpoutput

The rationale is to work from RH and then calculate P_w as output: P_w=RH x P_g where P_g is vapor saturation pressure at the given ambient condition.

From there all world is yours!

You can use ideal gas rules to do everything. But i cant use CoolProp to calculate the ABsolute humidty for given RH and ambient condition.

Note that clearly i can calculate all these from hand calculation as well as approximation formuale of Clausius-Clapeyron equation. But i wanted to do in Maple with its packages.

Any help is appreciated!?

Regards

Sina

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