Any ideas to find intersection between tan(t) and y1, y2, and y3 line equations?
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Hello! I want to find intersection between tan(t) and the following line equations but my code instead of giving me two intersection points, just giving me one at origin(0,0)
t=0:0.01:5;
y1=0.5*t; y2=t; y3=2*t;
i1=intersect(tan(t),y1)
i2=intersect(tan(t),y2)
i3=intersect(tan(t),y2)
HINT: There should be 2 intersection points for each one of i1, i2, and i3!
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Matt J
on 14 Jul 2013
I assume you are looking for solutions on [-pi/2, pi/2].
The only one of the functions that has an intersection anywhere there but t=0 is y2. You can find the positive solution using fzero,
>> fun=@(t) tan(t)-2*t; [T,fval]=fzero(fun,3*pi/8)
T =
1.1656
fval =
4.4409e-16
The other solution is -T, due to the symmetry of the functions.
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