Re: Trigonometric simplification - newbe question
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- Subject: [mg49051] Re: Trigonometric simplification - newbe question
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 6/28/04 at 4:13 AM, fedderwi at uni-bremen.de (Christensen) wrote:
>this is a Mathematica newbe question for sure:
>Mathematica comes up with the following result:
>(4*(2*a*Sin[(n*Pi)/2] - a*Sin[n*Pi]))/(n^2*Pi^2)
>Now I have the additional assumption that n is element of {1,2,3,
>...) (and a is real)
>How do I tell Mathematica to take this into consideration and
>remove the Sin[n*Pi] term?
You can use Assumptions to specify your assumptions, i.e.
Simplify[(4*(2*a*Sin[(n*Pi)/2] - a*Sin[n*Pi]))/(n^2*Pi^2),
Assumptions -> {n \[Element] Integers}]
which results in
(8*a*Sin[(n*Pi)/2])/(n^2*Pi^2)
But note the Sin[n*Pi] cannot be removed without additional assumptions since it evaluates to either -1, 0 or 1 for different intgers n.
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