How to retain only the positive root of a quadratic equation?
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Rinu
el 15 de Ag. de 2014
Comentada: Walter Roberson
el 19 de Sept. de 2016
I was wondering if there is any Matlab function that would allow me to retain only the positive root of a quadratic equation. I want to use that function along with the 'roots' function to solve n number of quadratic equations to get n number of positive roots.
x=zeros(1,n)
for i=1:n
x(i)=function(roots([a(i) b(i) c(i)]))
end
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Guillaume
el 15 de Ag. de 2014
To only get the positive elements of array a:
>>a = [-2.5 0 2.5 -3.5 1];
>>apos = a(a>=0)
apos =
0 2.5000 1.0000
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Walter Roberson
el 19 de Sept. de 2016
Joel Matthew commented on the Answer:
did you read the question ? he is asking for finding the positive root not an element in an array
Walter Roberson
el 19 de Sept. de 2016
Joel,
roots() returns a vector of values. roots() is an already known step. The question is therefore to write a function which examines a vector of values and returns the positive (real) values from the vector. So where the original poster had written
x=zeros(1,n)
for i=1:n
x(i)=function(roots([a(i) b(i) c(i)]))
end
using "function" as a stand-in for the name of the function to do the desired selection, that could be written as
x=zeros(1,n)
for i=1:n
x(i)=Extract_positive(roots([a(i) b(i) c(i)]))
end
function apos = Extract_positive(a)
apos = a(a > 0);
which is code that only has to worry about elements of an array.
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