Week of 9/4
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A real amplitude and phase measurement. Top figure shows the amplitude of the transmitted and reflected electric fields. Bottom are the corresponding amplitudes.
when is it ok to assume physical expressions are complex?
Consider the forced, damped, simple harmonic oscillator.
Let's pretend that both x and F are actually complex variables. So we would write