Trigonometry 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1111826854
ISBN 13: 978-1-11182-685-7

Chapter 8 - Section 8.3 - Products and Quotients in Trigonometric Form - 8.3 Problem Set - Page 440: 48

Answer

$\frac{z_{1}}{z_{2}}=\cos(-\frac{\pi}{6})+i\sin(-\frac{\pi}{6})=\frac{\sqrt {3}}{2}-\frac{1}{2}i$

Work Step by Step

Dividing in standard form, we have $\frac{z_{1}}{z_{2}}=\frac{1+i\sqrt {3}}{2i}=\frac{1+i\sqrt {3}}{2i}\cdot\frac{-2i}{-2i}$ $=\frac{-2i-2i^{2}\sqrt {3}}{-4i^{2}}=\frac{2\sqrt {3}-2i}{4}=\frac{\sqrt {3}}{2}-\frac{1}{2}i$ Put $z_{1}$ and $z_{2}$ in trigonometric form: $z_{1}=1+i\sqrt {3}=2(\cos \frac{\pi}{3}+i\sin\frac{\pi}{3})$ $z_{2}=2i=2(\cos\frac{\pi}{2}+i\sin\frac{\pi}{2})$ Dividing again, we obtain $\frac{z_{1}}{z_{2}}=\frac{2\,cis\,\frac{\pi}{3}}{2\,cis\,\frac{\pi}{2}}=\frac{2}{2}\,cis\,(\frac{\pi}{3}-\frac{\pi}{2})=\cos(-\frac{\pi}{6})+i\sin(-\frac{\pi}{6})$ This gives: $=\frac{\sqrt 3}{2}+i\cdot-\frac{1}{2}=\frac{\sqrt {3}}{2}-\frac{1}{2}i$
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