Re: Fourier Transform
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- Subject: [mg124252] Re: Fourier Transform
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:11:48 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/14/12 at 2:56 AM, jstorch at earthlink.net wrote: >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 ) Using In[2]:= $Version Out[2]= 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (October 5, 2011) I don't have any problem with this when I replace abs with Abs. If you use abs instead of Abs then it should not be surprising Mathematica has difficulty since abs is not defined.