Re: Fourier Transform
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- Subject: [mg124243] Re: Fourier Transform
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:08:41 -0500 (EST)
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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 ) > If you replace abs with Abs, it will not hang. Remember: All Mathematica build-in function-names start with a capital Letter. -- _________________________________________________________________ Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de