Question: Just solve it! (frequency response)

As an engineer and not a mathematician, I'm interested most often in getting symbolic solutions to various equations.  But when I enter an equation, say, for |a| where a is a complex equation for the frequency response of a filter, Maple simply returns "|a|".  Well, I knew that!  What I want is the symbolic equation of the magnitude of the frequency response, not a parroting of what I just typed.  I have yet to find the command that will give me this.  The help file is less than helpful in this regard.  "How do I ..." seems focused on obtaining numerical solutions, not symbolic solutions, for example.  I find that it's usually much quicker to just do the math on paper.

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