[newbie] problem with determining modulus of complex quantity
Subject: [newbie] problem with determining modulus of complex quantity
From: Hugo Coolens
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:58:12 +0100
I defined the following function:
calpgon(m,s):=product(1/(s+4*(cos((k*%pi)/(2*m+1)))^2),k,1,m);
simplified it for the case m=3 like this:
trigrat(calpgon(3,s));
1
(%o2) -------------------
3 2
s + 5 s + 6 s + 1
substituted s by i*omega like this
s : %i*omega;
tried to calculate the modulus of calpgon(3,i*omega) like this
abs(trigrat(calpgon(3,s)));
and got this:
! 3 2 !
!%i (omega - 6 omega) - 5 omega + 1!
(%o4) --------------------------------------
6 4 2
omega + 13 omega + 26 omega + 1
however I hoped to get this "neater" form:
1
--------------------------------
sqrt(omega^6+13 omega^4 +26 omega^2+1)
Can anyone here tell me how to make maxima go for the last expression?
thanks in advance
hugo