Justin,
Many thanks!
I will give it a try!
Grigory
From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org> On Behalf Of
Justin Gray
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:28 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users <lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org>
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Formula response won't recognize "pi"
You can evaluate the answer using Maxima and allow for a tolerance using
mathresponse. In Maxima, the constant pi is written as %pi. Here is a possible
coding for this problem, which will accept either %pi or a numerical
approximation for pi:
<problem>
<script type="loncapa/perl">
$function = "1/sqrt(4*(%pi)^2*L*C)";
$answer=&xmlparse('The correct answer is <m
eval="on">$\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\cdot\pi^{2} \cdot L\cdot C}}$</m>');
</script>
<startouttext />
<p>Enter <m>$ \frac{1}{\sqrt{4\cdot\pi^{2} \cdot L\cdot C}} $</m></p>
<endouttext />
<mathresponse answerdisplay="$answer" cas="maxima" args="$function">
<answer>is(abs((RESPONSE[1])/(LONCAPALIST[1]) - 1) < 0.01);</answer>
<textline readonly="no" size="100" spellcheck="none" />
</mathresponse>
</problem>
You will probably want to give students some instruction for formatting their
answer.
Best,
Justin
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:14 AM H. K. Ng <h...@fsu.edu<mailto:h...@fsu.edu>>
wrote:
Hi,
Formularesponse using cas with maxima works great.
<problem>
<script type="loncapa/perl">
$ansa = &cas('maxima','1/sqrt(4*pi^2*L*C)');
</script>
<startouttext />What is formula for resonant frequency for an LC circuit?
<endouttext /><br />
<startouttext /><m>$ \omega_{res} = $</m><endouttext />
<formularesponse answer="$ansa" id="12">
<textline readonly="no" />
</formularesponse>
</problem>
Regards,
-hk
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM SIMIN, GRIGORY
<si...@engr.sc.edu<mailto:si...@engr.sc.edu>> wrote:
Hi all!
I've found a strange issue in some problems requiring formula response.
I have a simple question to enter the formula for the resonant frequency.
An example of correct answer is (in other variations the formula could be a bit
more complex than this one)
1/(2*pi*sqrt(L*C))
The correct solution is checked by sampling L and C values.
When I am entering the answer, I can see that LON-CAPA recognizes it because it
displays the formatted formula as I am entering it:
[cid:image001.jpg@01D5A07B.3EF6C940]
But when I press submit, I got the response:
“unable to understand formula”
By experimenting with this, I found that the issue happens because of “pi”
being a part of the answer.
If pi is replaced with 3.141, everything would work.
But it feels weird asking students to enter 3.141 instead of pi; besides, I
don’t even want to give them a hint that pi is a part of the answer.
Why is this happening? Apparently LON-CAPA knows what “pi” means because it
displays it correctly.
Thanks!
Grigory
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