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10.2.3 Increasing the phase by π/2 in a trigonometric expression

The shift_phase command increases the phase of a trigonometric expression by π/2.

Examples

shift_phase(x+sin(x))
x−cos ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝
π +2 x
2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠
          
shift_phase(x+cos(x))
x+sin ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝
π +2 x
2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠
          
shift_phase(x+tan(x))
x−
1
tan ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝
π +2 x
2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠
          

Quoting the argument will prevent the automatic simplification.

shift_phase('sin(x+pi/2)')
−cos ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝
π +2 x+2
π
2
2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠
          

With an unquoted sine, you get:

shift_phase(sin(x+pi/2))
sin ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝
π +2 x
2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠
          

since sin(x+pi/2) is evaluated (in this case simplified) before shift_phase is called, and shift_phase(cos(x)) returns sin((pi+2*x)/2).


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