>  assumes that all symbols that do not have an explicit dependence on the 
variable of differentiation are constants

`idiff` will allow you to do the differentiation of symbols without 
functions, e.g. `dydx for idiff(2*x - y**2, y, x) -> 1/y`

/c

On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 7:37:33 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2022, at 10:48 PM, Andre Bolle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Here's what I did. You will notice that the second derivative couldn't see 
> the 'x', which had been replaced by psi.
>
> Yes, that is a “feature” of sympy, which assumes that all symbols that do 
> not have an explicit dependence on the variable of differentiation are 
> constants. Most of the time that works well. You can get around that by 
> specifying that psi is a function of x. See the sympy documentation on 
> functions. I have been fiddling with how to make it take more general 
> derivatives, but need to figure out a definition of an infinitesimal that 
> will function consistently within the sympy environment.
>
>
> I do like the equation annotation.  (eq1), (eq2), (eq3), etc. Nice.
>
> Glad you like it. I sometimes collapse the code blocks. This then leaves 
> you with the results of each step as might be provided in a traditional 
> derivation. You can also pretty it up with comments in markdown cells 
> between the each step. 
>
> Jonathan
>

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