Re: FoourierTransform of a function defined in sections
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- Subject: [mg70205] Re: [mg70176] FoourierTransform of a function defined in sections
- From: gardyloo <gardyloo at mail.wsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:07:55 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, Eckhard,
Here's the result that 5.2 gives me (no errors given):
-((2*Sqrt[2/Pi]*Sin[p*Pi])/(-4*p + p^3))
Hope that helps!
C.O.
Eckhard Schlemm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want Mathematica to calculate the FourierTransform of a function which is
> defined by Sin[x]^2 for Abs[x]<PI and zero else. I tried and defined the
> function g as follows:
>
> g[x_]:=If[Abs[x]>PI,0,Sin[x]^2];
>
> That works fine. But if I have mathematica try to determine the
> FourierTransform by
>
> FourierTransform[g[x],x,p]
>
> I always get the error that the recursion limit and the iteration limit were
> exceeded...
>
> what am I'm doing wrong?
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> Eckhard
>
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