How to solve transcendental equations in matlab

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I am practicing solving transcendental equations in matlab I have the given equation and I want to solve for x
tan(((0.9)*pi/w)*sqrt(1.468^2-x.^2))- sqrt((x.^2-1.458^2))/(sqrt(1.468^2-x.^2))==0
plotting w varies from 1.55 to 5 I tried all day but I cannot find solution, I tried with fzero(fun,xo) without success any suggestion?
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alburary daniel
alburary daniel on 12 Jun 2018
A feel confuse because a will trying to solve problemas using newton rapson method
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 13 Jun 2018
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I know that I spent about 2 hours investigating this myself, and I am disappointed that my contribution would just disappear as if I had never done the work.

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Anton Semechko
Anton Semechko on 12 Jun 2018
This is a complex-valued function. Just from visual inspection, it is apparent that the real part of this function has infinitely many solutions. The imaginary part, however, appears to have a finite number of zeros. Are those the solutions you are looking for?
x=linspace(-2*pi,2*pi,1E4);
w=1.55;
f=tan(((0.9)*pi/w)*sqrt(1.468^2-x.^2)) - sqrt((x.^2-1.458^2))./(sqrt(1.468^2-x.^2));
figure('color','w')
plot(x,real(f))
hold on
plot(x,imag(f))
set(gca,'YLim',[-10 10])
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Anton Semechko
Anton Semechko on 12 Jun 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson on 12 Jun 2018
If you want to plot w along horizontal axis, change
plot(Z(i),W(i),'.k','MarkerSize',20) to plot(W(i),Z(i),'.k','MarkerSize',20),
plot(Z,W,'-b') to plot(W,Z,'-b')
x- and y-labels would have to be modified accordingly.
Variable Z is a vector that contains solutions to f(x,w)=0, so that abs(f(Z(i),W(i)))<tol, where tol=1E-16. W is vector of w values that go from 1.5 to 5.
Anton Semechko
Anton Semechko on 12 Jun 2018
Here is modified version of the code and visualization of computed results:
% Equation
a=0.9;
n1=1;
n2=1.5;
f=@(x,w) tan((a*pi/w)*sqrt(n2^2-x.^2)) - sqrt((x.^2-n1^2))./(sqrt(n2^2-x.^2));
% Look for zeros for w=[1.5 5]
W=linspace(1.5,5,1E2);
X=linspace(n1+1E-12,n2-1E-12,1E3);
Z=0.5*(n1+n2)*ones(size(W));
Opt=optimset('Display','off');
figure('color','w')
for i=1:numel(W)
% Initialize search
F=f(X,W(i));
[F_min,id]=min(abs(F));
Z(i)=X(id);
% Refine solution
f_i=@(x) f(x,W(i));
[Zi,Fi]=fzero(f_i,Z(i),Opt);
if abs(Fi)<abs(F_min), Z(i)=Zi; end
plot(W(i),Z(i),'.k','MarkerSize',20)
hold on
end
plot(W,Z,'-b')
xlabel('w','FontSize',25,'FontWeight','bold')
ylabel('b','FontSize',25,'FontWeight','bold')
set(gca,'FontSize',20)
grid on

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 30 Jul 2018
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