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naviakam

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I have got two solutions to unknown equations:
1. power equation in the form y=k x(-n) where k is coefficient and n is the power
1. exponential equation of the form: y=y0+k exp(-(x-x0)/t)
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Is it possible to find the original equation/s leading to these solutions (kind a reverse engineering!)?

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Hi
I have got two solutions to unknown equations:
1. power equation in the form y=k x(-n) where k is coefficient and n is the power
1. exponential equation of the form: y=y0+k exp(-(x-x0)/t)
1609234353742.png



Is it possible to find the original equation/s leading to these solutions (kind a reverse engineering!)?

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Have you studied Differential Equations?
 
Hi
I have got two solutions to unknown equations:
1. power equation in the form y=k x(-n) where k is coefficient and n is the power
1. exponential equation of the form: y=y0+k exp(-(x-x0)/t)
1609234353742.png



Is it possible to find the original equation/s leading to these solutions (kind a reverse engineering!)?

Best
In general, there is no way to determine "THE" original equation; if I gave you the solution x = 6, you can't possibly know what equation I solved.

That's true also of differential equations. But you can find "A" differential equation that yields each of your functions, by taking the derivative and looking for some connection between y' and y. See what you can come up with, and let us know. (Of course, if you are studying differential equations, there is a good chance that you have seen solutions that look like these, so you can have a good idea what to expect.)
 
Hi
I have got two solutions to unknown equations:
1. power equation in the form y=k x(-n) where k is coefficient and n is the power
1. exponential equation of the form: y=y0+k exp(-(x-x0)/t)
1609234353742.png



Is it possible to find the original equation/s leading to these solutions (kind a reverse engineering!)?

Best
What do you get if you differentiate the given expressions of 'y' interms of x?

y = k*x-n \(\displaystyle \ \ \to \ \ \frac{dy}{dx} = ?\)

Similarly for the second problem \(\displaystyle \ \ \ \ \frac{dy}{dx} = ?\)
 
qThat depends strongly on which of k, t, x, \(\displaystyle y_0\), and \(\displaystyle x_0\) are "constants of integration" or parameters or variables! For \(\displaystyle y= kx^{-n}\), assuming that y and x are the variable, that n is a parameter, and that k is the constant of integration the, differentiating y with respect to x, \(\displaystyle \frac{dy}{dx}= -knx^{-n-1}\). Dividing that by the original equation to eliminate k, \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{y}\frac{dy}{dx}= \frac{-knx^{-n-1}}{kx^{-n}}\)\(\displaystyle = \frac{-n}{x}\), \(\displaystyle \frac{dy}{dx}=-\frac{ny}{x}\) or \(\displaystyle x\frac{dy}{dx}= ny\).
 
Thanks.
Ions are accelerated in a potential, the graph for number of ions versus ion energy plotted in origin and fitted. There are two plots: one is fitted with the power and the other with exponential decay in the form mentioned above (y is the number and x is the energy). We've been asked to guess the original function leading to these spectra. Amazingly, both equations seem originating from a single function!
 
As an alternative way to eliminate the constant of integration (because dividing the ODE by the solution feels less natural to me), you can try to turn it into an additive constant before implicitly differentiating.

[MATH]y = kx^{-n}[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = ln(kx^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = ln(k) + ln(x^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = k + ln(x^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]\frac{1}{y}dy = 0 - \frac{n}{x}dx[/MATH][MATH]\frac{dy}{dx}= - \frac{ny}{x}[/MATH]
 
Thanks.
Ions are accelerated in a potential, the graph for number of ions versus ion energy plotted in origin and fitted. There are two plots: one is fitted with the power and the other with exponential decay in the form mentioned above (y is the number and x is the energy). We've been asked to guess the original function leading to these spectra. Amazingly, both equations seem originating from a single function!
How did you deduce that?

Can you please share your work?
 
As an alternative way to eliminate the constant of integration (because dividing the ODE by the solution feels less natural to me), you can try to turn it into an additive constant before implicitly differentiating.

[MATH]y = kx^{-n}[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = ln(kx^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = ln(k) + ln(x^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]ln(y) = k + ln(x^{-n})[/MATH][MATH]\frac{1}{y}dy = 0 - \frac{n}{x}dx[/MATH][MATH]\frac{dy}{dx}= - \frac{ny}{x}[/MATH]

thanks
how the exponential equation is differentiated?
 
What is 'x' in the first equation?

What is 'y' & 't' in the second equation?

in both equations y is the number of ions, x is the energy. but t: I just fitted the curve and exponential decay fit was the best. t was given by the fit in the origin software.
 
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