Can the real and imaginary part of ( 1 + x i ) ever be equal provided that x is a real and n is a positive integer?
Note :
i = -1^(1/2)
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
I believe you meant to say ( 1 + x i ) n in your problem statement, Raven Herd. In this case, we have:
( 1 + x i ) n = [ 1 + x 2 ⋅ e i arctan ( x ) ] n = ( 1 + x 2 ) n / 2 ⋅ e i ⋅ n arctan ( x ) = ( 1 + x 2 ) n / 2 ⋅ [ cos ( n arctan ( x ) ) + i sin ( n arctan ( x ) ) ] .
We'd like the real and the imaginary parts to equal each other, which yields:
( 1 + x 2 ) n / 2 cos ( n arctan ( x ) ) = ( 1 + x 2 ) n / 2 sin ( n arctan ( x ) ) ;
or 1 = cos ( n arctan ( x ) ) sin ( n arctan ( x ) ) = tan ( n arctan ( x ) ) ;
or 4 π = n arctan ( x ) ;
or tan ( 4 n π ) = x
which satisfies x ∈ ( 0 , 1 ] , n ∈ N .
The answer is YES.
Problem Loading...
Note Loading...
Set Loading...
Imaginary part is the coefficient to i . Therefore we have a solution at x = 1 .