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Re: trig expansion

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  • Subject: [mg8933] Re: trig expansion
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 22:08:10 -0400
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> How can I cause Mathematica to expand Sin[2 Pi omega t + 2 Pi delta],
> where delta and omega are symbols, into the form
> 
>    Cos[2 Pi delta] Sin[2 Pi omega t] + Sin[2 Pi delta] Cos[2 Pi omega t]
> 
> without using a replacment rule
> 
>     Sin[a_ + b_] -> Sin[a]Cos[b] + Cos[a]Sin[b]
> 
> explicitly?  

What is wrong with using a replacment rule?  It is probably the best way
to achieve what you want here. 

I assume that this question is related to your earlier question (which I
assume is related to Fourier series expansions?):

>I want to make an assignment T = k/omega and somehow cause Mathematica
>to know that k is an integer.  How do I do this?

In my opinion, the best way to is using pattern-matching and replacement
rules (see The Mathematica Journal 2(4): 31).  E.g., for n integral, we
have

	{Cos[(n_)*Pi] -> (-1)^n, Sin[(n_)*Pi] -> 0}; 

Cheers,
	Paul 
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