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: 49

Answer

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

Work Step by Step

Dividing in standard form, we have $\frac{z_{1}}{z_{2}}=\frac{4+4i}{2-2i}=\frac{4+4i}{2-2i}\cdot\frac{2+2i}{2+2i}$ $=\frac{8+8i+8i+8i^{2}}{4-4i^{2}}=\frac{16i}{8}=2i$ Put $z_{1}$ and $z_{2}$ in trigonometric form: $z_{1}=4+4i=4\sqrt {2}(\cos \frac{\pi}{4}+i\sin\frac{\pi}{4})$ $z_{2}=2-2i=2\sqrt {2}(\cos\frac{7\pi}{4}+i\sin\frac{7\pi}{4})$ Dividing again, we obtain: $\frac{z_{1}}{z_{2}}=\frac{4\sqrt {2}\,cis\,\frac{\pi}{4}}{2\sqrt {2}\,cis\,\frac{7\pi}{4}}=\frac{4\sqrt {2}}{2\sqrt {2}}\,cis\,(\frac{\pi}{4}-\frac{7\pi}{4})=2\,cis\,(-\frac{3\pi}{2})$ $=2[\cos (-\frac{3\pi}{2})+i\sin (-\frac{3\pi}{2})]$ $=2(\cos\frac{\pi}{2}+i\sin\frac{\pi}{2})$ (As $\frac{\pi}{2}$ is coterminal with $-\frac{3\pi}{2}$) This gives: $=2(0+i\cdot1)=2i$
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