Re: Finding the real part of a symbolic complex expression
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- Subject: [mg126582] Re: Finding the real part of a symbolic complex expression
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 05:56:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5/20/2012 1:36 AM, Jacare Omoplata wrote:
> I wanted to find the real part of (a + I b)(c + I d) , assuming a,b,c
>and d are real, "I" being Sqrt[-1].
>
> So I tried,
>
> Re[(a + I b) (c + I d)] /. Assuming -> Element[{a, b, c, d}, Reals]
>
> Nothing happens. What I get for output is,
>
> Re[(a+I b) (c+I d)]
>
> I found out that I can use the function "ComplexExpand" to expand
>the expression assuming a,b,c and d to be real. But I'm curious to
>know if there a way to make Mathematica use "Re" to find the real part?
>
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expr=(a+I b)(c+I d);
ComplexExpand[Re[expr]]
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Out[12]= a c-b d
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Assuming[{Element[{a,b,c,d},Reals]},Simplify[Re[Expand[expr]]]]
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Out[15]= a c-b d
--Nasser