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Hi!
Why, in figure 29 of the attached worksheet, do the phases not coincide? And in general, if I have made any mistakes please let me know. Thanks very much to those who will answer.
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@-MFra- wrote:
Hi!
Why, in figure 29 of the attached worksheet, do the phases not coincide?
Because its wrong to just use "atan (Im(z)/Re(z))" to get the phase for any complex number z. To get the correct result you'll have to add or subtract pi if Re(z)<0!
Adding pi gives you the phase in the range ]-pi/2; 3 pi /2] and looks like this:
Subtracting pi forces the phase to ]-3 pi /2; pi/2)
You may use "atan2" instead of "atan" in your function phi to get the very same results as you get with "arg", that is a phase in }-pi; pi]
Using atan2 also has the advantage that the case of Re(z)=0 is handled correctly and does not throw an error!
Of course "arg" would do the job equally well 😉
BTW, to avoid jump discontinuities in the phase plot you can use the "phasecor( )" function but you have to turn the continuos function into vectors for plotting.
Right, we talked about it a while ago, but I had just forgotten it. Thank you.