Pandas mathematical operation, conditional on column value

Question

I need to make a mathematical operation which is conditional on the value in a second column. Here is the setup.

Given a simple dataframe (df):

Answer 1

Using loc

df['math'] = df.loc[df.col1.eq('B'), 'col3'].add(10)

  col1  col2  col3  math
0    A     2     0   NaN
1    A     1     1   NaN
2    B     9     9  19.0
3  NaN     8     4   NaN
4    D     7     2   NaN
5    C     4     3   NaN