Mathematics » High School: Number and Quantity » The Complex Number System
Standards in this domain:
Perform arithmetic operations with complex numbers.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.1 Know there is a complex number i such that i2 = –1, and every complex number has the form a + bi with a and b real.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.2 Use the relation i2 = –1 and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties to add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.3 (+) Find the conjugate of a complex number; use conjugates to find moduli and quotients of complex numbers.
Represent complex numbers and their operations on the complex plane.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.4 (+) Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular and polar form (including real and imaginary numbers), and explain why the rectangular and polar forms of a given complex number represent the same number.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.5 (+) Represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, and conjugation of complex numbers geometrically on the complex plane; use properties of this representation for computation. For example, (-1 + √3 i)3 = 8 because (-1 + √3 i) has modulus 2 and argument 120°.
- CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.6 (+) Calculate the distance between numbers in the complex plane as the modulus of the difference, and the midpoint of a segment as the average of the numbers at its endpoints.
Use complex numbers in polynomial identities and equations.
