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Maryam Iqbal Assistant Professor EE Department Buic

The document introduces complex numbers, which are the combination of a real number and an imaginary number. It notes that while real numbers square to positive results, there is no real number that squares to negative one. However, mathematics can be completed by imagining a number i, called the imaginary number, where i squared equals negative one. Complex numbers thus combine real and imaginary numbers, allowing expressions like 3.6 + 4i that unite a real and imaginary component.

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Maryam Iqbal Assistant Professor EE Department Buic

The document introduces complex numbers, which are the combination of a real number and an imaginary number. It notes that while real numbers square to positive results, there is no real number that squares to negative one. However, mathematics can be completed by imagining a number i, called the imaginary number, where i squared equals negative one. Complex numbers thus combine real and imaginary numbers, allowing expressions like 3.6 + 4i that unite a real and imaginary component.

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Maryam Iqbal
Assistant Professor
EE Department
BUIC
COMPLEX PLANE

This plane?
COMPLEX PLANE

A plane for complex


numbers!
(Also called an "Argand
Diagram")
REAL AND IMAGINARY MAKE
COMPLEX

• A Complex Number is a combination of a Real Number and an Imaginary


Number:
• A Real Number is the type of number we use every day.
• Examples: 12.38, ½, 0, −2000
• When we square a Real Number we get a positive (or zero) result:
• 22 = 2 × 2 = 4
12 = 1 × 1 = 1
02 = 0 × 0 = 0
A MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION!
• What can we square to get −1?

?2 = −1

Squaring −1 does not work because multiplying negatives


gives a positive: (−1) × (−1) = +1, and no other Real
Number works either.
MATHEMATICS IS INCOMPLETE ...
…….but we can fill the gap by imagining there is a number that, when multiplied by
itself, gives −1
(call it i for imaginary):
i2 = −1
An Imaginary Number, when squared gives a negative result
.
Examples: 5i, -3.6i, i/2, 500i
And together:
A Complex Number is a combination of a Real Number and an Imaginary Number
Examples: 3.6 + 4i, −0.02 + 1.2i, 25 − 0.3i, 0 + 2i
Break !!!

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