Substituting a value to a syms function in a matrix?
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I have a 4x4 matrix
A=
[E11e, 0, 0, 0]
[ 0, E11e, 0, 0]
[ 0, 0, E11e, 0]
[ 0, 0, 0, 0.5*E11e]
where Elle is a symbolic function....(syms E11e)
And I need to substitute the value of Elle as 4.3287e+08.
How should I do it?
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Walter Roberson
on 20 Feb 2022
compare:
syms E11e(t)
A1 = [
E11e, 0, 0, 0
0, E11e, 0, 0
0, 0, E11e, 0
0, 0, 0, str2sym('0.5')*E11e ]
syms E11e
A2 = [
E11e, 0, 0, 0
0, E11e, 0, 0
0, 0, E11e, 0
0, 0, 0, str2sym('0.5')*E11e ]
Notice that the output for the symbolic function case always includes the names of the symbolic function parameters. As you do not show that in your symbol is a symbolic variable rather than a symbolic function.
The replacement method is the same either way:
B1 = subs(A1, E11e, str2sym('4.3287e+08'))
B2 = subs(A2, E11e, str2sym('4.3287e+08'))
It would be more common to,
subs(A2, E11e, 4.3287e+08)
This has a slightly different meaning than using str2sym() would have: when you use the numeric constant then by default the constant is converted to a rational value (or rational combined with a square root or π); when you use str2sym() like I used there, then a software floating-point number is used.
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