Re: POWEREXPAND
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- Subject: [mg31918] Re: POWEREXPAND
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:13:58 -0500 (EST)
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Peter,
With t>0
Sqrt[(-1/t)^3] =
Exp[1/2(Log[Abs[(-1/t)^3] + I Arg[(-1/t)^3])] =
Exp[1/2(Log[Abs[(-1/t)^3] + I Arg[(-1/t)^3])] =
Exp[1/2(Log[1/t^3] + I Pi)] =
I /t^(3/2)
Whereas
Sqrt[-1/t] = Exp[1/2(Log[Abs[-1/t]]+ Arg[-1/t])] =
Exp[1/2(Log[1/t]+ I Pi)] =
I/Sqrt[t]
So that
Sqrt[-1/t]^3 = ( I/Sqrt[t)]^3 = -I/t^(3/2)
Check:
Simplify[Sqrt[(-1/t)^3], t>0]
I/t^(3/2)
Simplify[Sqrt[-1/t]^3, t>0]
-(I/t^(3/2))
--
Allan
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"Blimbaum Jerry DLPC" <BlimbaumJE at ncsc.navy.mil> wrote in message
news:9v49ui$n28$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Concerning the recent question about PowerExpand of (-1/t)^(3/2)
> Sqrt[-t] note that the results depend on how you enter the formula....
>
> PowerExpand[Sqrt[(-1/t)^3] Sqrt[-t]] gives the result -1/t
>
> whereas
>
> PowerExpand[Sqrt[-1/t]^3 Sqrt[-t] gives the result 1/t
>
>
> apparently typing in (-1/t)^(3/2) Sqrt[-t] in Mathematica
> corresponds to the second way...
>
>
> jerry blimbaum NSWC Panama City, Fl
>