I am playing around with an ellipse, which rotates in 3D. In its own coordinate system A, its equation of course is
x**2/a**2 + y**2/b**2 + z**2/c**2 = 1 A rotates relative to N, the generalized coordinates are q1, q2, q3, dq1/dt = u1, etc. I express the rotated ellipse in N, by using A.variable_map(N), now the coordinates are, say, N_x, N_y, N_z. Using sympy.solve I solve the ellipse equation for N_y, I get two solutions, of which I take the one I need, so, say, I get N_y = f(N_x, N_z, q1, d2, d3, a, b, c,…) I want the speed of N_y, so I write: Speed_N_y = f(…..).diff(t) Now my problem starts: In Speed_N_y, there are terms like Derivative(q1(t), t), and same for q2, q3. Of course, these terms are u1, u2, u3, but I cannot find a way to replace Derivative(q1(t), t) with u1, etc. I tried Speed_N_y.subs({Derivative(q1(t), t): u2}) but this did not work. I tried Speed_N_y.subs({q1.diff(t): u1}) also this did not work. I also tried to get rid of these Derivative terms by writing NY_lam = lambdify( …, Speed_N_y, {‚Derivative(q1(t), t)‘: u1}) This did not give an error - but also did not accomplish anything. Of course, when I try to lambdify my Speed_N_y and then try to evaluate it numerically the problems come up, as this Derivative(q1(t), t) is unknown. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/243c5c3b-0896-4814-8198-953b001ff950n%40googlegroups.com.