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Re: Separating real part and imaginary part from each

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  • Subject: [mg101216] Re: [mg101189] Separating real part and imaginary part from each
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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ComplexExpand is your friend in such situations. (For reasons I don't 
know, it seems unknown to too many users.)  And of course you must use 
correct Mathematica syntax (but no reason for those explicit * signs):

   f[z_] := (a z + b)/(c z + d)
   ComplexExpand[ f[x + I y] ]


Alexander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> suppose I have the expression
> 
> f(z) = (a*z+b) / (c*z+d) with z=x+I*y
> 
> I did the calculation by hand and was able to separate real part fom
> imag. part to obtain something like this:
> 
> g=f(x+I*y) = Re(g) + I * Im(g)
> 
> But I don't know how to do this in Mathematica. I tried FullSimplify,
> Together, Apart, they didn't work. Can you help me?
> 
> Alexander
> 

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