Re: Trigonometric simplification
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- Subject: [mg68957] Re: Trigonometric simplification
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
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carlos at colorado.edu schrieb: > As an intermediate result of some calculations I have > the expression > > r=Tan[a]^2/(Sec[a]^2)^(3/2) > > where a is real. How can I coerce Mathematica into > simplifying that to > > r=Cos[a]*Sin[a]^2 > > Both Simplify and FullSimplify with assumptions on a > fail to get the simpler form. > At least FullSimplify doesn't: In[1]:= FullSimplify[Tan[a]^2/(Sec[a]^2)^(3/2), -Pi < 2*a < Pi] Out[1]= Cos[a]*Sin[a]^2