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Homework 8 Problems

This document provides 8 problems related to complex numbers. The problems cover topics like determining whether statements about real numbers also hold for complex numbers, solving equations involving complex numbers, factorizing polynomials, plotting complex numbers on an Argand diagram, and properties of complex functions.

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Homework 8 Problems

This document provides 8 problems related to complex numbers. The problems cover topics like determining whether statements about real numbers also hold for complex numbers, solving equations involving complex numbers, factorizing polynomials, plotting complex numbers on an Argand diagram, and properties of complex functions.

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Homework 8 Problems:

1. Below we make some statements about real and complex numbers. The statements about the real
numbers are all true (and well-known.) What about the same statements for complex numbers?
For each of the following statements say whether it is true for complex z. If a statement is true,
give a proof for it; if it is false, give a counter-example.
For real x: For complex z:
(a) If x2 = 0, then x = 0. (a) If z 2 = 0, then z = 0
(b) x2 = |x|2 (b) z 2 = |z|2
(c) |x| ≥ 0 (c) |z| ≥ 0
2
(d) x ≥ 0 for all real x. (d) z 2 ≥ 0 for all complex z.
2. Solve for z if cos z + sin z = 2 .
3. Solve the equation
z 6 − 2z 3 + 2 = 0
and then plot your solutions on an Argand diagram.
4. Find a quadratic function f (z) with real coefficients such that f (3 + i) = 0 and f (0) = −10.

5. The complex number 2 + i is a zero of the polynomial

p(z) = 3z 3 − 14z 2 + 23z − 10.

Use this information to factorize 3x3 − 14x2 + 23x − 10 into real linear and irreducible quadratic
factors. Explain carefully how you obtain your answer.

6. Plot the complex number −i on an Argand diagram, and then plot all the solutions to the equa-
tion z 5 = −i on the same diagram. Also write all the solutions in modulus-argument form.

7. How many distinct complex zeros could the polynomial z 91 + 3z 34 + 5z − 6 have? Does it have
an even or an odd number of real zeros? What is the largest number of irreducible quadratic
factors it can have? Give clear reasons for your answers.

8. Prove properties 1.15.1 in the complex numbers notes.

9. The real numbers are ‘ordered’: if you pick any two (unequal) real numbers, then one of them
is greater than the other. In particular, the real numbers satisfy the following two properties:
P1: If x ∈ R and x 6= 0, then either (but not both) x > 0 or −x > 0, and,
P2: If x, y ∈ R and x, y > 0, then xy > 0
Show that it’s not possible to order the complex numbers by proving that no ordering of them
can satisfy P1 and P2.

10. Express 1 + cos θ + i sin θ in modulus-argument form. [Hint: express everything in terms of θ/2.]
Do the same for 1 + cos θ − i sin θ.
11. If z + 1/z is real, show that either |z| = 1 or z is real.
12. If π/6 ∈ arg(z + a) and 2π/3 ∈ arg(z − a) and a ∈ R, find z.

1. Express in the form a + bi:


cos θ + i sin θ 5
 
a)
sin θ + i cos θ
2

b) [1 + cos(2π/5) − i sin(2π/5)]2
2. Prove that  
n n φn nφ nφ
(1 + cos φ − i sin φ) = 2 cos cos − i sin
2 2 2
[Hint: Conversion from Cartesian to modulus-argument form and back will be useful].
3. Find the solutions of the following equations and plot them on Argand diagrams:
a) z 2 = −2 + 2i
b) z 6 = −64
√
c) z 5 = 1 + 3i
d) z 4 = −1 − i
e) z 2 + 4z + 29 = 0
f) z 2 + 2iz + 1 = 0
g) z 3 + 10z 2 + 37z + 42 = 0 [Hint: find a root by inspection]
√
h) z 6 + 2z 3 + 1 = 0
4. Find a quadratic equation with real coefficients which has 3 + i as one of its roots.
5. Given that 1 + i is a root, express z 4 + 2z 3 − z 2 − 2z + 10 as a product of linear and irreducible
quadratic factors.
6. Given that g(2i) = 0, do the same for: g(z) = z 4 + 2z 3 + 6z 2 + 8z + 8
7. If z = z0 is a solution of the equation az + b = 0 (a, b ∈ C), show that z0 is also a solution of the
equation az + b = 0. Can you extend the principle to quadratic equations?
8. (a) Use the Binomial Theorem to write cos5 θ as the sum of terms of the form b cos (bθ), where
b ∈ R and k ∈ Z. Hint: Use R cos θ = 12 (eiθ + e−iθ ).
(b) Use this to integrate cos5 θ dθ. Is there another way of finding this integral?

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