Matlab not computing integral
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I am new to Matlab and cannot figure out why Matlab will not calculate this integral. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
clc;
%Symbolic Variables
syms lambda_x x x_prime y y_prime pi k
%Constants
k = 10;
x = 5;
y = 6;
x_prime = -1;
y_prime = 2;
g1 = exp(1i*lambda_x*(x-x_prime))*exp(-1i*abs(y-y_prime)*sqrt((k^2)-(lambda_x^2)));
g2 = sqrt((k^2)-(lambda_x^2));
g3 = g1/g2;
g3integral = int(g3,lambda_x,-inf,inf, 'PrincipalValue', true);
pretty(g3integral)
4 Comments
Brandon Peter
on 13 Sep 2018
Jan
on 14 Sep 2018
What about integrating it numerically and not symbolically?
Brandon Peter
on 14 Sep 2018
Answers (1)
Walter Roberson
on 14 Sep 2018
0 votes
Numerically it is undefined because the denominator passes through 0, giving a division by 0.
The cauchy principle value does not appear to exist. Take the limit of g3 as lambda_x approaches -infinity or +infinity and you will see it being infinite. Take the limit as lambda_x approaches -10 or +10 and you will see complex infinities with different sign on the two sides of the discontinuity.
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