Re: symbolic complex expressions
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- Subject: [mg53674] Re: [mg53637] symbolic complex expressions
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:52:03 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Frank, When working with complex expressions YOU WILL ALMOST ALWAYS WANT TO USE ComplexExpand. ComplexExpand is the workhorse of complex algebra. (They should have called it ComplexSimplify.) You will often want to use the TargetFunctions option with it. Certainly read the Help for ComplexExpand and experiment with it. Abs[x + I y] % // ComplexExpand Abs[x + I*y] Sqrt[x^2 + y^2] David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Frank [mailto:frankdeicke at gmx.de] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Hi, I've 2 question with mathematica using symbolic complex expressions. - Is there a possibility to make from i.e. |x + I y| -> sprt(x^2+y^2) if x and y are Real. Abs[] doesn't work? - You've a fraction like this x/(x + I y) and you want to eliminate the complex expression in the denominator. i.e. doing something like this: x/(x + Iy)*(x - I y)/(x - I y) -> (x^2 - I x y)/(x^2+y^2) How do you do this with mathematica? Thanks, Frank