That should be doable with a solve block

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"solve block"
Is that a command inside Mathcad or something else?

Find attached some ways to do it.

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One more question, and thenx for the previous answer.
How to use the result you get?
Im asking this becasue if I have even the simpliest equation like 2x+3=0, in Mathcad I would get -3/2 using the "solve for x".
But how to use the x value (-3/2) for your further calculations?

Root functions seems to work for this couse I can get numeric value.
Anyother ideas?

"But how to use the x value (-3/2) for your further calculations?"

That would depend on what you're doing, wouldn't it? Presumably, x is something you needed. If you didn't need the solution, then there wouldn't be any point in solving for it, would there?

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Sorry I dont understand you
Something on "root" function?

I don't understand why you say that getting the solution like -3/2 is useless because it's somehow not "numeric?"

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No, I think he means -->solve,x and it doesn't work.
AnaAnt: What you have to do is --- x:=1 (or something) then Given [CR] 2*x+3:=0 [CR] x:=Find(x). After Given you have to use [CRTL]= just like before.

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Hi guys.
One more question on root function in MATHCAD.
Plase look at the file attached.

When I try to calculate t(x)=0 and find the the x value "by hande" I get an quadriatic equation with x1 and x2.
Using the root function in Mathcad I always get warning message saying "divide by zero"
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.

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I always get warning message saying "divide by zero" sad
What am I doing wrong?

You tell Mathcad to search for a solution in the range from 0 to h.
Look at your function - what happens for x=0? (Tip: look inside the square brackets ).
So replace the 0 for something like 10^-2 mm (you need to add the unit) and you get 135.017mm.
As an alternative you can use root another way:
x:=1m // guess value needed
z:=root(t(x),x)

I typed integrate(x^2,0,b)=12.5,solve,b and it returned 5 and -5.

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I typed integrate(x^2,0,b)=12.5,solve,b and it returned 5 and -5.

Thats one of the possible ways to answer the original question which I posted here 12 days ago. See above.
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I typed integrate(x^2,0,b)=12.5,solve,b and it returned 5 and -5.

Just saw it - I hope you didn't really type x^2, otherwise this would mean you have a corrupt copy of mathcad

I am having a similar issue in that I use a solve block to solve for two unknowns say C1 & C2. I use the Find(C1,C2) and it gives me the values in a 1x2 Matrix form. After the solve/find block I would like to use C1 and C2 in further equations but they are not defined. I have to manually set C1= to the value I see in the find block. How do I define C1 & C2 as the values in the Find block?

Occupant above gave an example that works when there is one undefined variable ie. C1 := Find(C1) but I can't get it to work with 2 unknowns.
Tried something like this C1,C2 := Find (C1,C2) ..... or defining them separately C1 := Find(C1) C2 := Find(C2). It wont solve when I break it up.

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You can extract values from vectors and matrices by using array subscripts. For example (and asusming ORIGIN=0), if you have Res:=Find(C1,C2)=[C1 C2], you can get C1 out of the result vector by using Res[0= and you can get C2 by using Res[1=. The "[" keystroke gets you the array subscript. If ORIGIN=1, then use 1 and 2 as your array subscripts.

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Doesn't really change anything - see picture.

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Occupant/fel3 thanks!