MathGroup Archive: January 2012 [00289]

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Fourier Transform

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Subject: [mg124225] Fourier Transform
From: jstorch at earthlink.net
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:56:14 -0500 (EST)
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Mathematica hangs when trying to evaluate the simple Fourier Transform
of H(a-|t|).

FourierTransform[HeavisideTheta[a-abs[t]],t,w,Assumptions->a>0]

(The answer should be Sqrt(2/Pi) (Sin[w a])/w  )

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