Polar Form Of Complex Numbers Worksheet With Answer Key - Openstax College
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25OpenStax-CNX module: m49408
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Polar Form of Complex Numbers
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Abstract
In this section, you will:
Plot complex numbers in the complex plane.
Find the absolute value of a complex number
Write complex numbers in polar form.
Convert a complex number from polar to rectangular form.
Find products of complex numbers in polar form.
Find quotients of complex numbers in polar form.
Find powers of complex numbers in polar form.
Find roots of complex numbers in polar form.
God made the integers; all else is the work of man. This rather famous quote by nineteenth-century
Kronecker
German mathematician Leopold
sets the stage for this section on the polar form of a complex
number.
Complex numbers were invented by people and represent over a thousand years of continuous
Pythagoras
Descartes
Euler
Gauss
investigation and struggle by mathematicians such as
,
, De Moivre,
,
,
and others.
Complex numbers answered questions that for centuries had puzzled the greatest minds in
science.
We rst encountered complex numbers in Complex Numbers.
In this section, we will focus on the
mechanics of working with complex numbers: translation of complex numbers from polar form to rectangular
form and vice versa, interpretation of complex numbers in the scheme of applications, and application of De
Moivre's Theorem.
1 Plotting Complex Numbers in the Complex Plane
complex number
a + bi
Plotting a
is similar to plotting a real number, except that the horizontal axis
a,
bi.
represents the real part of the number,
and the vertical axis represents the imaginary part of the number,
Given a complex number
plot it in the complex plane.
a + bi,
how to feature:
1.Label the horizontal axis as the real axis and the vertical axis as the imaginary axis.
a
b
2.Plot the point in the complex plane by moving
units in the horizontal direction and
units
in the vertical direction.
Example 1
Plotting a Complex Number in the Complex Plane
complex plane
2
3i
Plot the complex number
in the
.
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