HSC Extension Two Maths Complex Numbers Exam

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After completing the test, consider the list below as a checklist of skills to be ready for your complex numbers exam, or even for the complex numbers questions in the HSC

  • Perform basic operations with complex numbers

  • Understand complex conjugates

  • Represent a complex number in the complex plane

  • Convert a complex number to polar and exponential forms

  • Understand the principal argument

  • Find powers of complex numbers using exponential form

  • Use De Moivre’s theorem to prove trigonometric identities

  • Solve quadratic equations with both real and complex coefficients

  • Solve polynomials with real coefficients by using complex conjugates

  • Represent complex numbers as vectors on the complex plane

  • Calculate the nth roots of a complex number and plot them on the complex plane

  • Identify subsets of the complex plane determined by relations