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Re: How to handle Units of Measure

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• Subject: [mg100475] Re: How to handle Units of Measure
• From: John Jowett <John.M.Jowett at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <gvlhom$djb$1@smc.vnet.net>

You could try the Accelerator`ConstantsUnits` package, I have
mentioned in previous posts:

http://jowett.home.cern.ch/jowett/Accelerator/ConstantsUnits.html

Then a numerical version of your example (choosing unusual frequency
units just to demonstrate the power)  is

Z = R + I*w*L /. {R -> 10.*Ohm, w -> 300000./Day, L -> 5.*Henry}

Convert[Z,Ohm]

which returns

(10. + 17.3611 I) Ohm

A symbolic version would be


Z = R + I*w*L /. {R -> rO*Ohm, w -> wD/Day, L -> lH*Henry}


Convert[Z, Ohm]

returning

Ohm*(rO + (I*lH*wD)/86400)

It all looks better in a notebook of course.

John Jowett

On May 28, 10:24 am, Alexei Boulbitch <Alexei.Boulbi... at iee.lu> wrote:
> In this very simple example if I write
> R+iwL
> where R is measured in Ohms, w in s^-1, L in H, I expect that the
> result is given in Ohms.
> Why it doesn't happen in Mathematica ? Ho can I do to handle in a
> simple way those conversions ?
> Thanks
>
> Hi, Theodoro,
> I do it this way, simple enough:
>
> In[30]:=    R := x*Ohm;
>                 w := z*Hz;
>                 L := y*H;
>                 H = Ohm/Hz;
>                 R + w*L // Simplify
>
> Out[34]= Ohm (x + y z)
>
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