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Pretty print derivative in Newton notation with dot?

asked 2020-12-28 23:37:51 +0100

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updated 2020-12-30 10:16:33 +0100

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Is there any way to get the pretty printer to produce Newton's notation? - ie. a single dot centred over the variable for first derivative with respect to time, 2 dots for second derivative etc.

Example:

t, y = var('t, y')
x = function('x')(t)
pretty_print(y == 2*diff(diff(x,t),t) - 3 * diff(x,t) + 5)

gives:

sage math output

but I'd like to see:

Newton's Notation

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slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2020-12-28 23:47:42 +0100 )edit

Ideally, add

  • an example of input that one can paste in a fresh Sage session
  • the current output
  • the desired output
slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2020-12-29 10:15:23 +0100 )edit

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answered 2020-12-30 09:52:36 +0100

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updated 2020-12-30 10:15:20 +0100

This gets requested from time to time and we should support that!

Not sure the pretty printer can do that, but there are workarounds.

One of them consists in defining "x dot" and "x dot dot" functions, and to substitute them in the equation.

sage: t, y = SR.var('t, y')
sage: x = function('x')(t)
sage: xdot = function('xdot', latex_name=r'\dot x')
sage: xddot = function('xddot', latex_name=r'\ddot x')
sage: de = y == 2*diff(diff(x, t), t) - 3 * diff(x, t) + 5
sage: dde = de.subs({diff(x, t): xdot(t), diff(diff(x, t), t): xddot(t)})
sage: view(dde)

$$ y = 2 \ddot x\left(t\right) - 3 \dot x\left(t\right) + 5 $$

Even better, when defining a function, you can say what its derivative is.

Using that, start by defining the furthest derivative you'll need (here xdd for "x dot dot"), then work backwards until you define x.

Then the pretty printer gets things right without the need for subs.

sage: t, y = SR.var('t, y')
sage: xdd = function('xdd', latex_name=r'\ddot x')
sage: xd = function('xd', latex_name=r'\dot x',
....:               derivative_func=lambda self, *aa, **ka: xdd(*aa))
sage: x = function('x', derivative_func=lambda self, *aa, **ka: xd(*aa))
sage: de = y == 2*diff(diff(x(t), t), t) - 3 * diff(x(t), t) + 5
sage: view(de)

$$ y = -3 \, \dot x\left(t\right) + 2 \, \ddot x\left(t\right) + 5 $$

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