Why is the phase angle not just -90 degrees?

[Cyrus]

Can someone show me how they got this:

\frac{\omega_n^2}{-\omega^2+j2 \zeta \omega_n \omega}

Has this phase:

-90-tan^{-1} \frac{ \omega}{2 \zeta \omega_n}

Why isn't it simply:

0 -tan^{-1} \frac{- 2 \zeta \omega_n}{ \omega}

 

[uart]

Hi Cyrus. Look at the denominator, it's phase is clearly a "second quadrant" angle. Inverse tan however only covers quadrands I and IV, so you want to express it as 180 - invtan(2 zeta omega_n / omega) right.

Now you're right to do what you did next, subtract the phase of the denom from the phase of the num to get :

-180 + invtan(2 zeta omega_n / omega).

Now just use invtan(x) = 90 - invtan(1/x) to get the desired expression.

BTW. Sorry that I'm too lazy to latex today, I hope you can follow it anyway.

 

[Cyrus]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks uart!

Im so used to using arctan2() command in MATLAB that I forgot all this stuff.