M361 FALL 2015 UNIQUE NUMBER 53490 HOMEWORK 1

This homework is due on Friday, September 4, 2015, before lecture begins. Late
homework is not accepted. In order to receive credit for this assignment you must
write your name and UT eid at the top of first page of the turned assignment, staple
further pages carefully, label neatly your exercises, show all of your work, and... return
it before the lecture begins. This assignment is graded 0-10 points depending on the
quality of your solutions to the problems below. I stress: show all of your work, and
fully explain how do you get to your answers. A correct answer without explanations
will be graded 0.
Given a complex number in Cartesian form z = x + i y (so that x, y R), define the
modulus of z and the conjugate of z as

|z| = x2 + y2 ,
z = x i y .
Exercise 1. Show that
z z = |z|2 .
Exercise 2. Show that if z = r ei then
z = r ei .
Comment on the geometric meaning of this formula.
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Given a complex number in Cartesian form z = x + i y such that |z| > 0, let us set
y
1
x
i 2
.
= 2
2
z
x +y
x + y2
Exercise 3. Prove the identities
z

1
= 1,
z

1
z
=
,
z |z|2

1 1 i
= e .
z
r

Exercise 4. Write the complex number

z=

3+i
,
(2 4i)(1 + i)3

in Cartesian form; that is, find x and y real numbers such that z = x + iy.
Exercise 5. Write the complex number z39 in Cartesian form, provided
1
i
z= + .
2
2
Hint: recall that zn = rn ein for z = r ei .
Exercise 6. Find all the solutions to the equation
z4 = 16 ,
and draw their positions on the complex plane.
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