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Re: Real and Imaginary Parts of complex functions
Posted:
Feb 27, 2013 3:04 AM
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Did you try a search in the Documentation Center? If you do, one of the things you'll find near the top of the hits is
Complex Numbers (Mathematica Guide)
which includes a list of functions. One of these is:
ComplexExpand - expand symbolic expressions into real and imaginary parts
Then look at the reference page for that; it's what you want here.
ComplexExpand[Re[1/(x + y I)]]
x/(x^2 + y^2)
The Refine and the assumptions about x and y are superfluous: the whole point of ComplexExpand is that it assumes symbolic variables used within it are already real.
On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:09 AM, Brentt <brenttnewman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I was wondering why this works
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> IN[]:= Refine[Re[x + y I], Element[x , Reals] && Element[y , Reals]]
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> Out[]:= x
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> But this does not
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> In[]:= Refine[Re[1/(x + y I)], Element[x , Reals] && Element[y , Reals]]
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> Out[]:= Re[1/(x + y I)]
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> Is there a nice built in way to get the real and imaginary parts of a
> complex function?
>
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