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Re: Re: circumference of an ellipse

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• Subject: [mg19447] Re: [mg19390] Re: circumference of an ellipse
• From: "Andrzej Kozlowski" <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
• Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:25:16 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In fact the sitation seems somewhat strange. Mathematica does seem to use 
deduction in Assumptions in Integrate, but does not seem to take advantege
of the mechanism used by Simplify, which should not be too difficult to
implement.

Consider the following additional examples:

In[1]:=
quartercircumference1[a_, b_] :=

  Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2},
    Assumptions -> {a/b > 0 && b > 0}]

In[2]:=
quartercircumference1[a, b]
Out[2]=
                                         2
              1  3                      a
  b MeijerG[{{-, -}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, --]
              2  2                       2
                                        b
-(-----------------------------------------)
                    2 Pi
In[3]:=
quartercircumference2[a_, b_] :=

  Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2},
    Assumptions -> {a*b > 0}]

In[4]:=
quartercircumference2[a, b]
Out[4]=
                                                2
        2            1  3                      a
  Sqrt[b ] MeijerG[{{-, -}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, --]
                     2  2                       2
                                               b
-(------------------------------------------------)
                        2 Pi


In[5]:=
quartercircumference3[a_, b_] :=

  Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2},
    Assumptions -> {a*b > 0, b > 0}]

In[6]:=
quartercircumference3[a, b]
Out[6]=
                                         2
              1  3                      a
  b MeijerG[{{-, -}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, --]
              2  2                       2
                                        b
-(-----------------------------------------)
                    2 Pi

In[7]:=
quartercircumference4[a_, b_] :=

  Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2},
    Assumptions -> {a*b > 0, a > 0}]

In[8]:=
quartercircumference4[a, b]
Out[8]=
                                                2
        2            1  3                      a
  Sqrt[b ] MeijerG[{{-, -}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, --]
                     2  2                       2
                                               b
-(------------------------------------------------)
                        2 Pi

On the other hand Simplify has no problems with these cases:

In[11]:=
Simplify[a/b > 0, a > 0 && b > 0]
Out[11]=
True

In[12]:=
Simplify[Sqrt[b^2], a*b > 0 && a > 0]
Out[12]=
b

--
Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
JAPAN
http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp
http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp


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>From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg19447] [mg19390] Re: circumference of an ellipse
>Date: Mon, Aug 23, 1999, 6:57 PM
>

> Stephen,
> Yes, and I should have used
>
> quartercircumference[a_, b_] :=
> Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2},
>     Assumptions -> {a > 0, b > 0}]
>
> quartercircumference[a, b]
>
> If[Arg[b^2/a^2] != Pi,
>   -((b*MeijerG[{{1/2, 3/2}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, a^2/b^2])/(2*Pi)),
>   Integrate[Sqrt[b^2*Cos[t]^2 + a^2*Sin[t]^2], {t, 0, Pi/2}]]
>
> But now we see that Mathematica does not deduce that if a and be are positive
then
> b^2/a^2 cannot be negative.
> We clearly need
>
> %[[2]]
>
> -((b*MeijerG[{{1/2, 3/2}, {}}, {{0, 1}, {}}, a^2/b^2])/(2*Pi))
>
> Allan
> ---------------------
> Allan Hayes
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>
>
> Stephen P Luttrell <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb> wrote in message
> news:7pl5l0$cch at smc.vnet.net...
>> Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:7p301g$anl at smc.vnet.net...
>> > Marcel,
>> >
>> > circumference[a_, b_] :=
>> >   Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, 2Pi}]
>> >
>> >...
>>
>> (Preamble: I have $Version = "4.0 for Microsoft Windows (April 21, 1999)")
>>
>> I agree with this parametric solution, but it exposes a bug in Mathematica
>> when you evaluate the following symbolic expression:
>>
>> circumference[a, b]
>>
>> This gives zero!
>>
>> Furthermore, if you define
>>
>> halfcircumference[a_, b_] :=
>>   Integrate[Sqrt[D[a Cos[t], t]^2 + D[b Sin[t], t]^2], {t, 0, Pi}]
>>
>> and then evaluate halfcircumference[a, b], you get "Infinite expression
> 1/0
>> encountered".
>>
>>
>> Steve Luttrell
>> Signal Processing and Imagery Department
>> DERA Malvern, St.Andrew's Road
>> Malvern, United Kingdom, WR14 3PS
>>
>> +44 (0)1684 894046 (tel)
>> +44 (0)1684 894384 (fax)
>> luttrell at signal.dera.gov.uk (email)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> 

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