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- From: rgep@emu.pmms.cam.ac.uk (Richard Pinch)
- Subject: Re: HELP: INTEGRAL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.113715.20483@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Summary: Do it by partial fractions
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- Organization: Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:37:15 GMT
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- In article <4540017@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> selee@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Lee Say Eng) writes:
- >
- >
- >I am running an experiment to find a constant n and the situation
- >is such that I need to find an expression for the following integral
- >(in which n appears) first.
- >
- >
- > /
- > | p
- > | __________ dp where k1, k2 and n are constants
- > | n
- > | k1 - k2*p
- > /
- >
- >
- Express 1 - a p^n (where a = k2/k1) as \prod_j=1^n 1 - \zeta^j p
- where \zeta = exp(2\pi i/n). Then split up the product by partial
- fractions into \sum b_j/(1 - \zeta^j p) where the b_j are suitable
- constants. Now you have to integrate a sum of terms each of the
- general form p / (1-cp) for c a (complex) constant. You get a lot
- of logarithms.
-
- Richard Pinch
-