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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2017
/
S1
/
3
/
2
/
Solution
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Codex
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2026-10-25
Put
z
=
e
i
θ
, so
d
θ
=
d
z
/
(
i
z
)
,
cos
θ
=
(
z
+
z
−
1
)
/2
and
sin
θ
=
(
z
−
z
−
1
)
/
(
2
i
)
. Rational expressions in these
trigonometric functions
become rational
contour
integrands
on the
unit circle
. The method is especially
useful
when the resulting
denominator
has a
small
number
of identifiable
poles
.
A
pole
on the
integration
circle
requires
a
separately specified
principal value
or indentation; the
residue theorem
does not automatically assign an ordinary
integral
there.
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