How do you isolate a nonatomic term from a symbolic expression?
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MathWorks Support Team
on 5 May 2022
Answered: MathWorks Support Team
on 5 May 2022
I want to is to find the coefficient of some nonatomic term in an expression.
E.g. for the expression:
>> syms x y z
>> expr = z * exp(x + y) + 2 / z * exp(2 * x + y)
Iwant to read the coefficient of "exp(2 * x + y)". How can this be accomplished?
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MathWorks Support Team
on 5 May 2022
Development is investigating ways of streamlining this workflow. However, this may currently be accomplished via:
>> syms t
>> texpr = expand(simplify(subs(expr, x, (log(t) - y) / 2)))
>> dtexpr = diff(texpr, t)
>> cdtexpr = children(dtexpr)
>> cof = 0
>> for i = 1:length(cdtexpr)
>> if ~has(cdtexpr{i},t)
>> cof = cof + cdtexpr{i};
>> end
>> end
>> cof
That is:
1) Define a new variable "t" and solve the expression that should be isolated in terms of one of the dependent variables.
2) Solve "t == exp(2 * x + y)" for "x". Substitute this new term into the expression, simplifying and expanding to bring the expression into a standard form.
3) To find only the linear term of the relevant expression, you can take the derivative "diff" and then if any given term in the expression still has any dependence on "t", eliminate it from the final expression.
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