BMAT201L - Complex Variables and Linear Algebra
Module 2 – Conformal and Bilinear transformations
1. Find where the following mappings are conformal and also find the critical points if
any.
(a) (b) (c)
2. Under the transformation show that the half plane maps onto the
half plane
3. Find the image of the rectangular region bounded by
under the transformation ( )
4. Find the image of the strip under the transformation
5. Find the image of the region under the transformation
6. Find the image of the strip under .
7. Find the image of the circle | | under .
8. Determine the region of w-plane for the following regions under the mapping
a) First quadrant of z-plane
b) Region bounded by
c) | | ( )
9. Find and draw the image of the rectangular region in
the z-plane under the transformation
10. Show that the region between the real axis and a line parallel to real axis at
transforms into upper half of the w-plane under the transformation .
11. Determine the bilinear transformations whose fixed points are i, −i.
12. Find the bilinear transformation that maps z1, z2, z3 onto w1, w2, w3 respectively: z
= ∞, i, 0 onto w = 0, i,∞
13. Find the bilinear transformation whose fixed points are 1/ 2 and 2 and maps (5+3i)/4
into ∞.
14. Find the bilinear transformation which maps z = 1, i, −1 onto w = i, 0, −i. Find the
image of |z| < 1. Determine fixed points.
15. What is the form of a bilinear transformation which has one fixed point ‘a’ and the
other fixed point’∞’.
Answer Key:
1. (a) Conformal at all points except . Origin is a critical point.
(b) Conformal except These are the critical points.
(c) Conformal except at ( ), ( ),…. These are the critical points.
3. The rectangular region bounded by and
4. The strip
5.
6. The strip is mapped onto the region bounded by the circles
and in the w-plane.
7.
8. a) ( )
b)
c) | |
9.