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TEST 3. Complex Numbers (2015A)

1. The document is a math test on complex numbers with 8 multiple part questions testing various skills with complex numbers. 2. The questions cover topics like expressing complex numbers in the form a + ib, using trigonometric identities with complex exponents, finding zeros of polynomials, using binomial expansion with complex numbers, solving equations involving complex numbers, and evaluating integrals involving complex exponential and trigonometric functions. 3. The final question involves combining two integrals into a single integral involving a complex exponential, and evaluating it to obtain expressions for the integrals involving exponential and trigonometric functions.

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TEST 3. Complex Numbers (2015A)

1. The document is a math test on complex numbers with 8 multiple part questions testing various skills with complex numbers. 2. The questions cover topics like expressing complex numbers in the form a + ib, using trigonometric identities with complex exponents, finding zeros of polynomials, using binomial expansion with complex numbers, solving equations involving complex numbers, and evaluating integrals involving complex exponential and trigonometric functions. 3. The final question involves combining two integrals into a single integral involving a complex exponential, and evaluating it to obtain expressions for the integrals involving exponential and trigonometric functions.

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MATH HL

TEST
COMPLEX NUMBERS
by Christos Nikolaidis

Name:____________________________________ Marks:____/80

Date:________________ Grade: ______

Questions

1. [Maximum mark: 5]
z
Given that = 2 – i, z  , find z in the form a + ib. [5 marks]
z2

2. [Maximum mark: 7]
Given that z = cosθ + i sinθ show that
 1 
(a) Im  z n  n   0, n  +; [2 marks]
 z 
 z 1 
(b) Re   = 0, z ≠ –1. [5 marks]
 z 1

3. [Maximum mark: 6]
Consider the polynomial p(x) = x4 + ax3 + bx2 + cx + d, where a, b, c, d  .
Given that 1 + i and 1 – 2i are zeros of p(x), find the values of a, b, c and d. [6 marks]

4. [Maximum mark: 14]


The complex number z is defined as z = cos θ + i sin θ.
1
(a) Show that zn  n = 2i sin (nθ). . [2 marks]
z
5
 1
(b) Use the binomial theorem to expand  z   giving your answer in simplified
 z
form. [3 marks]
(c) Hence show that 16 sin5 θ = sin 5θ –5 sin 3θ + 10 sin θ. [5 marks]
π
(d) Find 
0
2 sin 5 d . [4 marks]
5. [Maximum mark: 10]
(a) Solve the equation
  = 32 + 32√3
giving your answer in the form
where > 0, − <  ≤ . [6 marks]
(b) Show that your solutions satisfy the equation
  + 2 = 0
for an integer k, the value of which should be stated. . [4 marks]

6. [Maximum mark: 14]


 2π   2π 
Consider ω = cos   i sin   .
 3   3 
(a) Show that
(i) ω3 = 1;
(ii) 1 + ω + ω2 = 0. [4 marks]
 2π   4π 
i   i   
(b) (i) Deduce that eiθ + e e  3 
= 0.  3 

π
(ii) Illustrate this result for θ = on an Argand diagram. [4 marks]
2
(c) (i) Expand and simplify F(z) = (z – 1)(z – ω)(z – ω2) where z is a complex
number.
(ii) Solve F(z) = 7, giving your answers in terms of ω. [6 marks]

7. [Maximum mark: 12]


(a) Use Euler’s form for e i and e  i to show that
1 i
(e  e i )cos  
2
and find a similar expression for sin  . [2 marks]
(b) Hence, by using binomial theorem, show that
1
cos 2  sin 4   (cos 6  2 cos 4  cos 2  2). [6 marks]
32
(c) Hence find the exact value of

0
3 cos 2  sin 4d . [4 marks]

8. [Maximum mark: 12]


The integrals C and S are defined by
 
C   e cos 3xdx
2 2x
and S   2 e 2 x sin 3 xdx .
0 0

By considering C  iS as a single integral, show that

C
1
13
2  3e 
and obtain a similar expression for S. [12 marks]

e
kx
[You may assume that the standard result for dx remains true when k is a complex constant,
1
e
( a ib ) x
so that dx  e ( a ib ) x  c ]
a  ib

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