Topic: Complex, Parametric, and Polar Forms
Subtopic: Trigonometric Form of Complex Numbers
Overview
In an intermediate algebra course you wrote Complex numbers in standard (a+bi) form. But this is not the only way to express them. Engineers typically use the Trigonometric Form of a Complex Number instead. Our goal today is to learn to write complex numbers in trigonometric form, plot them on a Complex plane, and convert them between standard and trig form.
Objectives
By the end of this topic you should know and be prepared to be tested on:
- 9.1.1 Understand the Complex plane geometrically and algebraically
- 9.1.2 Plot Complex numbers on the Complex plane
- 9.1.3 Convert a Complex number from standard form to trigonometric form
- 9.1.4 Convert a Complex number from trigonometric form to standard form
- 9.1 5 Know the geometric connection between a complex number and its opposite, and between a complex number and its conjugate
Terminology
Define: Complex plane, modulus / opposite / conjugate / argument (all of a Complex number), trigonometric form, the acronym "cis"