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conjugate and inverse of z
« on: November 16, 2012, 10:45:20 pm »
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I'm having a little trouble here. In the essentials textbook, it says that 1/z equals the conjugate of z? ??? (top of page 162 if anyone has the text)
am I missing something here? I tested this out with 2+2i. 1/(2+2i) - although having the same Argument as 2-2i - has a different modulus. Don't conjugates have to have the same modulus as the original complex number?
Something isn't clicking for me atm, and I'd appreciate any help. Thanks
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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2012, 10:51:23 pm »
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generally the magnitude won't be the same, but the argument is the same

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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2012, 11:08:35 pm »
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I had a look at the back of the text book for the definition before I saw this. Anyway, what it said there was that for z=rcis(theta), the conjugate is rcis(-theta)?
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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2012, 11:12:02 pm »
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I'm having a little trouble here. In the essentials textbook, it says that 1/z equals the conjugate of z



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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2012, 11:19:22 pm »
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I had a look at the back of the text book for the definition before I saw this. Anyway, what it said there was that for z=rcis(theta), the conjugate is rcis(-theta)?


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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2012, 11:32:59 pm »
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if and only if
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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2012, 11:54:13 pm »
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if and only if

lol I didn't read ques carefully  :P
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Re: conjugate and inverse of z
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2012, 12:12:17 am »
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if and only if
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