If Statment with

nickibee · Apr 7, 2005

Hi

I am new to Mathcad and a bit confused. I am trying to use an if statement to say something like the following:

Code:

Lr(R,gamma,theta):=if(phi(R,gamma,theta)< theta, 2, 10)

where

Code:

phi(R,gamma,theta):= atan(hr/Lg(theta))
Lg(theta):= Ls(theta)*cos(theta)
Ls(theta):= 2*hr/sin(theta)

However it wont work when i try to output the value of

Code:

Lr(R,gamma,theta)=

, I am getting a "must be real" error. If i change the boolean statement in the if statement to

Code:

phi(R,gamma,theta)= theta

it outputs an answer fine, however this is not what i need to work out! Does anyone know why this is?

Thanks in advance

IRstuff · Apr 7, 2005

What values or R, gamma, theta are you using?

TTFN

nickibee · Apr 8, 2005

I'm not sure what I've done but it seems to work now! The values of R, gamma and theta vary but in my examples that didnt work R was about 15, gamma was 90 and theta about 0.2. I've been playing around a bit with the algorithms and think I may have been using a variable in the right-hand part of the declaration that I hadn't put as an arguement in the left-hand part, but as this variable was declared at some point above this then it wasn't being picked up as not declared. It may have had an inappropriate value in from another calulation which was causing this. I am not sure though.

Thanks for you reply

IRstuff · Apr 8, 2005

Bear in mind that the default unit for trig functions in Mathcad is the radian, not degree.

TTFN

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