Aaron S. Meurer wrote:
I think the problem is that you use f.diff(tau) instead of f(tau).diff(tau).  
The first evaluates to 0, because it doesn't know that f depends on tau.

Aaron Meurer
On Apr 25, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Alan Bromborsky wrote:

Here is code -

  dRdtau = R.diff(tau)
  print 'e_tau =',dRdtau
  dRdtau_sq = (dRdtau|dRdtau)()
  print 'e_tau^2 =',dRdtau_sq
  dRdtau_sq = trigsimp(simplify(dRdtau_sq))
  print 'e_tau^2 =',dRdtau_sq
  dRdtau_sq.subs((g.diff(tau))**2-(f.diff(tau))**2,1)
  print 'e_tau^2 =',dRdtau_sq

Here is output -

e_tau = 
D(g(tau),tau)*e0+(D(f(tau),tau)*cos(th(tau,xth))-D(th(tau,xth),tau)*f(tau)*sin(th(tau,xth)))*e1+(D(f(tau),tau)*sin(th(tau,xth))+D(th(tau,xth),tau)*cos(th(tau,xth))*f(tau))*e2
e_tau^2 = D(g(tau), tau)**2 - (D(f(tau), tau)*cos(th(tau, xth)) - D(th(tau, 
xth), tau)*f(tau)*sin(th(tau, xth)))**2 - (D(f(tau), tau)*sin(th(tau, xth)) + 
D(th(tau, xth), tau)*cos(th(tau, xth))*f(tau))**2
e_tau^2 = D(g(tau), tau)**2 - D(f(tau), tau)**2 - D(th(tau, xth), 
tau)**2*f(tau)**2
e_tau^2 = D(g(tau), tau)**2 - D(f(tau), tau)**2 - D(th(tau, xth), 
tau)**2*f(tau)**2

A constraint is that -

D(g(tau), tau)**2 - D(f(tau), tau)**2 = 1

My use of subs does not do that.  How can I make such a substitution?

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Revised code -

dRdtau_sq.subs((diff(g(tau),tau))**2-(diff(f(tau),tau))**2,1)

Result -

  dRdtau_sq.subs((diff(g(tau),tau))**2-(diff(f(tau),tau))**2,1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sympy-0.6.7_git-py2.6.egg/sympy/core/basic.py", line 1309, in __call__
   raise TypeError("argument must be a dictionary")
TypeError: argument must be a dictionary

Revised code again -

dRdtau_sq.subs({(diff(g(tau),tau))**2-(diff(f(tau),tau))**2:1})

Result -

  dRdtau_sq.subs({(diff(g(tau),tau))**2-(diff(f(tau),tau))**2:1})
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sympy-0.6.7_git-py2.6.egg/sympy/core/basic.py", line 1309, in __call__
   raise TypeError("argument must be a dictionary")
TypeError: argument must be a dictionary


More suggestions please.

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