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Hallo.

I have some trouble with this.

I have to find the polar notation and rectangular notation.

I can find the answers from my normal calculator. But how can I type it in mathcad, and solve it there?

The answers are 340∠-10.9 and 334-j64.3

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Morten Rolund wrote:

Hallo.

I have some trouble with this.

I have to find the polar notation and rectangular notation.

I can find the answers from my normal calculator. But how can I type it in mathcad, and solve it there?

The answer depends on the Mathcad version you use - Prime or Mathcad 15.

Here we have one of the very seldom cases where Prime outperforms Mathcad.

The answers are 340∠-10.9 and 334-j64.3

No, thats wrong! At least thats not the answer for the calculation given in your picture.

You can use

01.png

for input and

02.png

for the output values.

In Prime you get the nice display as you want it out of the box:

1.png

but in Mathcad 15 you will have to define a few functions yourself, use some "tricks" (Ctrl-K, Infix and Prefix operator) and the display of the result is still not satisfactory at all:

2.png

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Morten Rolund wrote:

Hallo.

I have some trouble with this.

I have to find the polar notation and rectangular notation.

I can find the answers from my normal calculator. But how can I type it in mathcad, and solve it there?

The answer depends on the Mathcad version you use - Prime or Mathcad 15.

Here we have one of the very seldom cases where Prime outperforms Mathcad.

The answers are 340∠-10.9 and 334-j64.3

No, thats wrong! At least thats not the answer for the calculation given in your picture.

You can use

01.png

for input and

02.png

for the output values.

In Prime you get the nice display as you want it out of the box:

1.png

but in Mathcad 15 you will have to define a few functions yourself, use some "tricks" (Ctrl-K, Infix and Prefix operator) and the display of the result is still not satisfactory at all:

2.png

Thank you.I forgot to post some values, but I understand how it work.

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