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Complex Numbers Homework Problems

This document contains 8 homework problems involving complex numbers and functions: 1. Plot complex numbers and their squares on the complex plane using multiplication and modulus-argument forms. 2. Express several complex numbers in modulus-argument form. 3. Use modulus-argument forms from problem 2 and De Moivre's theorem to simplify a complex expression. 4. Find the real and imaginary parts of e3iz for complex z.

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Complex Numbers Homework Problems

This document contains 8 homework problems involving complex numbers and functions: 1. Plot complex numbers and their squares on the complex plane using multiplication and modulus-argument forms. 2. Express several complex numbers in modulus-argument form. 3. Use modulus-argument forms from problem 2 and De Moivre's theorem to simplify a complex expression. 4. Find the real and imaginary parts of e3iz for complex z.

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Homework 7 Problems:

√ √
1. Plot 3 + i and ( 3 + i)2 on the Complex plane. Do this in two ways:

√
a) by multiplying out ( 3 + i)2 , and,
√
b) by expressing 3+i in modulus-argument form and then using Theorem 4(a) in the complex
numbers notes.

2. Express the following in modulus-argument form:


√ √ √ √
a) 1 + 3i b) 3−i c) −1 − 3i d) − 3 + i
3. This question shows you how we can use the modulus-argument form of a complex number
and de Moivre’s theorem to simplify expressions.
√ √
In Question 2 you found the modulus-argument form of the complex numbers 1+ 3i and 3−i.

Use your answer to find the Cartesian form of:


√ √
(1 + 3i)23 ( 3 − i)2 .

(Think how long it would take you to do this without modulus-argument form!)

4. For complex z, find the real and imaginary parts of e3iz .

5. Find the real and imaginary parts of the following complex numbers:

a) e2πi/3 b) e−iπ c) 5e−iπ/3 d) 3eiπ/4 e2πi

6. This question uses the complex exponential function and shows that solving equations involv-
ing such functions is a little more complicated than just “taking logarithms”. In fact, since the
complex exponential function is not one-to-one, we cannot expect it to have an inverse. In the
question we lead you through the steps of solving such an equation.

We are going to solve the equation

ez = 1 + i (1)

a) To make progress, it is important to express both sides of the equation in modulus argu-
ment form.
Now let z = x + iy where x and y are real as usual; write down ez in terms of x and y in
the form ec eid where c and d are real numbers.

b) Use your answer to (a) to determine the modulus and an argument of ez in terms of x and y.

c) Complete: Two complex numbers in modulus-argument form are equal if and only if ...

d) Use your answers so far to write down two equations that will enable you to solve for x and
y, and hence to find all complex numbers z satisfying the equation (1).
2

e) Use the same ideas to solve the following equations for z ∈ C and plot the solutions on the
Argand diagram:

a) ei2z = −2 b) ez = 1 c) e3z = 1 + i d) eiz = 1 − i e) |ez | = 2


f) e|z| = i g) eiz = eiz

7. (a) Sketch the set A = {z ∈ C : Re(z) ≥ 1, |z| ≤ 2}.

Now sketch the following subsets of the complex plane:

(b) {z + 2 : z ∈ A}, (c) {z ∈ C : z + 2 ∈ A} (d) {z ∈ C : 3z ∈ A},


π
(e) {iz : z ∈ A}, (f) {ei 6 z : z ∈ A}.
8. Sketch the following sets:

(a) {ez : z ∈ C, 1 ≤ Re(z) < 2, − π6 < Im(z) ≤ π3 },


(b) {eiz : z ∈ C, π6 ≤ Re(z) < π3 , 0 < Im(z) ≤ 1},
(c) {z 2 : z ∈ C, 1 ≤ |z| ≤ 2, 0 ≤ arg(z) ≤ π4 },
(d) {z 2 : z ∈ C, 1 ≤ |z| ≤ 2, −π ≤ arg(z) ≤ − 3π 4 },
(e) {z ∈ C : 1 ≤ |z| ≤ 4, 0 ≤ arg(z 2 ) ≤ π2 },
(f) {z ∈ C : Re( z1 ) ≤ 12 }.

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