Let and .
Express in Cartesian form.
Hence calculate .
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Consider the expression and the quadratic equation .
Express in Cartesian form.
Solve the quadratic equation, giving the solutions in Cartesian form.
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Let and .
Express in exponential form, giving an exact argument in the interval .
Express in exact Cartesian form.
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A complex number has modulus and principal argument .
Write in exact Cartesian form.
Write the conjugate in exact exponential form.
Hence find the exact value of .
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The complex number is given by , where . It is known that and .
Determine the value of .
Find the principal argument of .
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Let , and .
Find in Cartesian form.
On an Argand diagram, plot and label the points representing , and .
Find and the principal argument of , giving exact values.
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The function is defined by , where .
Calculate the discriminant of the equation .
Solve the polynomial equation over , giving the solutions in exact Cartesian form.
Explain how the solutions in part (b) are consistent with the graph of having no -intercepts.
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Let and .
Calculate , giving the answer in exact Cartesian form.
Calculate , giving the answer in exact Cartesian form with principal argument.
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The complex number is given by .
Write in exact modulus–argument form.
Hence find in exact Cartesian form.
Write down the exact value of .
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Let .
Using technology, calculate in Cartesian form.
Verify that .
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A transformation of the complex plane is defined by , where . The point represents the complex number , and its image is the point representing .
Express in exact modulus–argument form.
Describe fully the geometric transformation that maps to .
Find in exact Cartesian form.
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Two alternating voltages, measured in volts, are given by
where is measured in seconds. The total voltage is .
Find an expression for in the form , where and .
Write down the maximum total voltage.
Find the first time at which the maximum total voltage occurs.
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Three water waves have heights
where height is measured in centimetres and in seconds. Their combined height is .
Express in the form , where and .
Write down the maximum combined height.
Find the first time at which the combined height is zero.
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A complex number satisfies
Determine all possible values of in Cartesian form.
Find the principal argument of each possible value of .
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An input signal has complex amplitude . A filter multiplies this amplitude by the transfer factor . The output complex amplitude is .
Express in exponential form, giving the modulus and argument to three significant figures.
Calculate in exact Cartesian form.
Write down the amplitude and phase shift represented by .
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The points and on an Argand diagram represent and , respectively. Multiplication by a complex number maps to , so that .
Find in Cartesian form.
Find the modulus and principal argument of .
Interpret multiplication by as a geometric transformation of the Argand diagram.
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Let and define for positive integers .
Express in exact modulus–argument form.
Find in exact Cartesian form.
Determine the least positive integer for which is a positive real number.
State the least positive integer for which has the same argument as for every positive integer , and justify your answer.
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Three actuators produce vibrations with the same angular frequency. Their phasors are , and , where and . The resultant phasor is .
Express in Cartesian form.
Write in the form , where and .
Hence write the vibration produced by the first two actuators in the form .
Determine and so that the three vibrations cancel completely. If you did not obtain an answer to part (a)(ii), use .
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A sequence of points on an Argand diagram is represented by and
for .
State the scale factor and angle of rotation that map to .
Express in exponential form, giving numerical values to three significant figures.
Show that , with numerical values given to three significant figures.
Hence calculate in Cartesian form.
Explain why lies on the same ray from the origin as but is closer to the origin.
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The equation
where , has two non-real roots. One root is denoted by , and .
Explain why the other root is .
Using the sum of the roots, determine .
Determine both possible values of .
Hence determine .
Explain how the graph of is consistent with the roots being non-real.
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A transformation of the complex plane is defined by . The point represented by is mapped to the point represented by .

Find in Cartesian form.
Find the modulus and principal argument of .
Describe fully the geometric effect of and determine the image of the point represented by .
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A complex-valued calculation is defined by
Using technology, calculate in Cartesian form.
Express in exact Cartesian form.
Hence calculate in Cartesian form.
Verify numerically that .
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The horizontal displacement, in millimetres, of a platform is modelled by
where is measured in seconds.
Write down the phasor corresponding to each of the three terms.
Calculate their sum in Cartesian form.
Express the sum in exponential form.
Hence express as a single cosine function.
Find the first time at which the platform reaches its maximum positive displacement.
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A quadratic function is given by , where . The equation has one root .
State the other root and explain your answer.
Determine and .
Find the coordinates of the vertex of the graph .
Explain the relationship between the vertex and the real and imaginary parts of the two roots.
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Let
Express in exact modulus–argument form.
Express in exact modulus–argument form, with principal argument.
Hence express in exact Cartesian form.
Describe geometrically the effect of multiplying any complex number by .
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A point in an animation is represented by . Each frame multiplies its position by , so that after frames.

Express in Cartesian form, giving its components to three significant figures.
Describe geometrically the effect of one frame on a point in the complex plane.
Determine the first value of for which , and find the corresponding position in Cartesian form.
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Three synchronized seismic signals are
where displacement is measured in millimetres and in seconds.

Write down a complex phasor representing each signal.
Find the resultant phasor in Cartesian form.
Express the resultant as and determine the duration in each cycle for which .
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Two loudspeakers produce signals
where . The measured amplitude of their combined signal is . Here, is measured in seconds, so the angular frequency is .

Show using phasors that the resultant phasor is real and has modulus .
Find .
third signal is added. Express the new total signal as and find the first time at which it reaches its maximum.
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The vertices of a regular hexagonal plate are represented by
A manufacturing process maps each vertex to , where .

Describe fully the transformation from to .
Find in exact Cartesian form.
Find the exact area of the original plate and hence the area of the transformed plate.
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A resultant signal is measured as
One known component is . A second component is , where and . The variable is measured in seconds.

Write an equation relating the three phasors.
Express the phasor of in Cartesian form.
Find and . Hence find the first time at which the resultant signal is zero.
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The points , and on an Argand diagram represent the complex numbers , and , respectively. A fourth point is chosen so that is a parallelogram, with the vertices in this order.

Using complex-number addition, determine the complex number represented by .
Find the lengths and .
Show that the angle is radians, correct to three significant figures.
Hence classify the parallelogram as precisely as possible, justifying your answer.
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A logo is generated from the complex number . Successive vertices are defined by
The centre of the logo is the origin.
Describe the transformation from to .
Find an expression for in exponential form.
Calculate in Cartesian form.
The designer claims that is almost on the same ray from the origin as . Determine the smaller angle between the two rays and comment on the claim.
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Let , where , and . Define
Express in Cartesian form in terms of and .
Hence show that if , then is purely imaginary.
For , calculate in Cartesian form and verify the result from part (a)(ii).
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Four speakers emit tones of the same angular frequency. Their complex amplitudes are shown in the table. The total complex amplitude is the sum of the four amplitudes.
Speaker | Complex amplitude |
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Speaker 1 | |
Speaker 2 | |
Speaker 3 | |
Speaker 4 |
Part (a)
Calculate the total complex amplitude in Cartesian form.
Express in the form .
Part (b)
Write the resultant tone as .
fifth speaker is added so that the total amplitude becomes with phase shift zero. Determine the fifth speaker's complex amplitude in Cartesian form.
Find the amplitude and phase shift of the fifth speaker.
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Two alternating currents are modelled by
where current is measured in amperes. It is known that the resultant current has phase shift zero and a positive amplitude.
Write an equation involving imaginary parts that must be satisfied by .
Given that , determine .
Calculate the resultant amplitude.
Hence write the resultant current as a single cosine function.
third current is to reduce the resultant amplitude to amperes while retaining phase shift zero. Determine one possible phasor for this third current and interpret its phase.
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On an Argand diagram, the points , and represent , and , respectively. A transformation maps to .

Determine in Cartesian form.
Determine the exact scale factor of and its angle of rotation to three significant figures.
The midpoint of represents the complex number . Find .
Find in Cartesian form.
Explain why is the midpoint of and .
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Two vibration sources have phasors and . A controllable source has phasor , where .

Find in Cartesian form.
Find the modulus and principal argument of .
Determine the value of that minimizes , and find this minimum modulus.
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For , consider the quadratic equation

Show that the discriminant is .
For , write the root with positive imaginary part in Cartesian form.
For part (b), take as the continuous continuation of the root identified in part (ii). Determine the locus of and find the two values of for which .
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A point moves by repeated rotations about the fixed point . Its positions satisfy
where .

Find in terms of .
Show that .
Find in Cartesian form and explain why .
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Two beacons are represented on an Argand diagram by and . A receiver at is units from beacon and units from beacon .

Write down two equations satisfied by and .
Show that .
Given that the receiver has positive imaginary part, find , its principal argument and the area of triangle .
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A coded signal is multiplied repeatedly by . Starting with , the signal after stages is . Only stages are available.

Write in exponential form.
Find and a principal argument of .
Determine the value of for which is closest in direction to the negative real axis. Find the corresponding modulus.
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Let and define for non-negative integers .
Show that and are roots of .
Find , and .
Show that for , and hence find .
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A camera position is updated by
where , and .

Show that .
Hence find an expression for .
Determine the first value of for which the camera is less than units from , and find at this stage.
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A monic quadratic with real coefficients has vertex and passes through . Let be its root with positive imaginary part and define
Component | Key data |
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Real graph | Vertex (4,9); y-intercept (0,25); sample points (2,13) and (6,13); opens upward. |
Argand diagram | Conjugate roots symmetric about the real axis; the upper root is z. |
Find the equation of the quadratic.
Find and explain why the real graph has no -intercepts.
Find in Cartesian and exponential forms. Determine the first positive integer for which .
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Let
The complex numbers represent five equally spaced points on the unit circle.

Part (a)
Show that and .
Using the identity , deduce that
Interpret the result geometrically on the Argand diagram.
Part (b)
Deduce the exact value of in terms of .
Show that and .
Hence verify numerically that
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A transformation is defined by

Find in exact Cartesian form.
Show that .
Determine the locus of fixed points of and hence interpret the transformation geometrically.
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A non-real complex number satisfies
where is real and .

Writing , show that .
Show that is a root of .
For , find the two possible values of . For the value with positive imaginary part, determine the first positive integer for which .
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Two equal-amplitude control signals are represented by the phasors
where and .

Factorize to show that its argument is the mean of and .
Hence state the modulus of the resultant.
For , the resultant has modulus and argument . Determine all possible ordered pairs satisfying .
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