Re: Abs and variables
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- Subject: [mg4335] Re: Abs and variables
- From: espen.haslund at fys.uio.no (Espen Haslund)
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:58:15 -0400
- Organization: Universitet i Oslo
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
> > How can I have the Abs function treat real variables properly? >I seem to recall a way of declaring a variable real, but I don't >remember how. If there is such a way, would this work with Abs; i.e. >fix the variable a so that "Abs[a]" will give a result of "a"? > >Thanks. > >/ >:@-) Scott >\ Hi, Scott I think you can obtain what want by using ComplexExpand with the Option TargetFunctions->{Re, Im}. The optional second argument of ComplexExpand specifies parameters to be Complex (the rest is assumed to be real). Below are two examples that I hope may be of some help. (I think the manual is too brief on ComplexExpand) -Espen IN: z = 1 / (1/r1 + I w c) + r2 1 OUT: r2 + ---------- 1 -- + I c w r1 IN: ComplexExpand[Abs[z], TargetFunctions->{Re, Im} ] //Simplify 2 2 2 2 2 2 r1 + 2 r1 r2 + r2 + c r1 r2 w OUT: Sqrt[-----------------------------------] 2 2 2 1 + c r1 w IN: z = 1 / (1/r1 + I w c) + z2 1 OUT: ---------- + z2 1 -- + I c w r1 IN: ComplexExpand[Abs[z], {z2}, TargetFunctions->{Re, Im} ] //Simplify c w 2 OUT: Sqrt[(-(------------) + Im[z2]) + -2 2 2 r1 + c w 1 2 (------------- + Re[z2]) ] 1 2 2 -- + c r1 w r1 ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====