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-MFra-21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
January 10, 2017
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How to avoid the symbolic partial simplification?

  • January 10, 2017
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Hi ALL,

Why, in the following immage, the latter two modules, highlighted with purple frame, are partially simplified?

Thanks

F.M.

partial simplification.jpg

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 10, 2017

Well, sometimes if you do something like expand before simplify you can confuse the symbolic processor. It's far from perfect. Much more likely though, when you make no assumptions about the domain of the variables the expressions can't be simplified. Unfortunately, I can't open your Prime 3.1 file.and I'm not inclined to retype everything, so that's my best guess.

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-MFra-21-Topaz IIAuthor
21-Topaz II
January 10, 2017

When I come across problems like this in mathcad, "I go right away on tilt" in the jargon we say .... but I found a loophole to the problem as you can see in the photo:

unit vectors in spherical coordinates.jpg

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