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Re: How to get the Real and Imaginary part of an expression
Posted:
Jan 5, 2013 2:18 AM
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Since there seems to be some typo or else some spurious control code
("=882") in the numerator of your fraction, for purposes of
explanation I'll change the numerator just to w.
In general, the way to extract the real and imaginary parts of a complex
number is to use ComplexExpand along with, of course, Re and Im. Here,
though, you have both real and complex variables, so I think you'll need
to express the complex s in the form x + I y. Then applying
ComplexExpand will treat all the variables w, z, x, and y as real:
ComplexExpand[Re[(w)/(s^2 + 2*z*w*s + w^2) /. s -> x + I y]]
w^3/((w^2 + x^2 - y^2 + 2*w*x*z)^2 + (2*x*y + 2*w*y*z)^2) +
(w*x^2)/((w^2 + x^2 - y^2 + 2*w*x*z)^2 + (2*x*y + 2*w*y*z)^2) -
(w*y^2)/((w^2 + x^2 - y^2 + 2*w*x*z)^2 + (2*x*y + 2*w*y*z)^2) +
(2*w^2*x*z)/((w^2 + x^2 - y^2 + 2*w*x*z)^2 + (2*x*y + 2*w*y*z)^2)
And similarly for Im.
(I've shown the results in one-dimensional InputForm for purposes of
this plain-text e-mail.)
On Jan 2, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes <emammendes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I need to extract the real and imaginary part of the following expression
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> (w=882)/(s^2+2*z*w*s+w^2)
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> where w and z are positive constants. s is a complex variable.
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> Applying Re and Im to the expression does not do much. By hand, one can easily find them.
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> What am I missing?
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> many thanks
>
> Ed
>
>
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