Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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A Note to the Reader |
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1.1.1 A Caveat on Complex Numbers as Matrix Elements |
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1.2 The Polar Form of Complex Numbers |
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1.3 Fractional Powers of Complex Numbers |
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1.3.2 Reminder: A Warning about Square Roots and Fractional Powers in MATLAB |
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1.3.4 A Program to Give You Fractional Roots and to Do a Check |
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1.3.5 A Further Caveat with Fractional Powers: The Plot Function |
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1.4 Complex Symbolic Algebra |
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22 | (2) |
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2 Loci and Regions in the Complex Plane and Displaying Complex Functions |
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2.1 Meshgrid and Three-Dimensional Plotting |
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2.2 Two-Dimensional Plots: The Contour Plot |
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34 | (5) |
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38 | (1) |
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2.3 Displaying Regions in the Complex Plane |
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2.4 Three-Dimensional and Contour Plots for Functions with Singularities |
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2.4.1 Plots When There Are Isolated Singular Points |
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2.4.1.1 Removable Singular Points |
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2.4.1.2 Pole Singularities |
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2.4.1.3 Essential Singularities |
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2.4.1.4 Branch Cut and Branch Point Singularities: Three-Dimensional Plots |
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54 | (4) |
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58 | (2) |
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2.5 Contour Plots Affected by Branch Cuts |
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3 Sequences, Series, Limits, and Integrals |
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3.2 Infinite Series and Their Convergence |
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3.2.1 Using MATLAB to Obtain the Series Coefficients |
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84 | (6) |
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3.3 Integration in the Complex Plane: Part 1, Finite Sums as Approximations |
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3.4 Integrations in the Complex Plane: Part 2, int and quadgk |
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3.4.1 Integration in the Complex Plane with MATLAB |
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104 | (1) |
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107 | (6) |
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4 Harmonic Functions, Conformal Mapping, and Some Applications |
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4.2 The Bilinear Transformation |
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131 | (4) |
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4.3 Laplace's Equation, Harmonic Functions: Voltage, Temperature, and Fluid Flow |
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4.4 Complex Potentials, Cauchy-Riemann Equations, the Stream Function, and Streamlines |
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4.4.1 Cauchy-Riemann Equations |
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4.5 Mapping, Dirichlet, and Neumann Problems and Line Sources |
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4.5.2 A Dirichlet Problem |
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4.5.4 Line Sources and Conformal Mapping |
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5 Polynomials, Roots, the Principle of the Argument, and Nyquist Stability |
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5.2 The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra |
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5.2.3 Roots versus Factor |
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5.2.4 Derivatives of Polynomials and the Function Roots |
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5.3 The Principle of the Argument |
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219 | (2) |
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5.4 Nyquist Plots, the Location of Roots, and the Pole-Zero Map |
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5.4.2 A Caveat on the Use of pzmap |
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6 Transforms: Laplace, Fourier, Z, and Hilbert |
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6.2 The Laplace Transform |
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6.2.1 Branch Points and Branch Cuts in the Laplace Transform |
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239 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Heaviside and Dirac Delta Functions |
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6.2.3 The Inverse Laplace Transform |
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246 | (5) |
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6.3 The Fourier Transform |
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6.3.1 Changing Variables: Fourier to Laplace and Vice Versa |
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266 | (1) |
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6.3.2 Convolution of Functions |
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267 | (2) |
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269 | (2) |
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6.4.1 The Z Transform of a Product |
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290 | (3) |
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6.4.2 Inverse Z Transform of a Product and Convolutions |
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293 | (2) |
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295 | (4) |
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6.5 The Hilbert Transform |
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300 | (6) |
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306 | (3) |
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7 Coda: Fractals and the Mandelbrot Set |
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323 | (3) |
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326 | (9) |
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326 | (2) |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (6) |
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Index |
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