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{"name": "Maths Support: Modulus and argument", "navigation": {"onleave": {"action": "none", "message": ""}, "reverse": true, "allowregen": true, "preventleave": false, "browse": true, "showfrontpage": false, "showresultspage": "never"}, "duration": 0.0, "metadata": {"notes": "", "description": "", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "timing": {"timeout": {"action": "none", "message": ""}, "timedwarning": {"action": "none", "message": ""}}, "shufflequestions": false, "questions": [], "percentpass": 0.0, "allQuestions": true, "pickQuestions": 0, "type": "exam", "feedback": {"showtotalmark": true, "advicethreshold": 0.0, "showanswerstate": true, "showactualmark": true, "allowrevealanswer": true}, "showQuestionGroupNames": false, "question_groups": [{"name": "", "pickingStrategy": "all-ordered", "pickQuestions": 0, "questions": [{"name": "Complex Numbers: Modulus, Argument", "extensions": [], "custom_part_types": [], "resources": [], "navigation": {"allowregen": true, "showfrontpage": false, "preventleave": false, "typeendtoleave": false}, "contributors": [{"name": "Bill Foster", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/6/"}], "functions": {}, "ungrouped_variables": ["ans1", "ans2", "ans3", "ans4", "b4", "b1", "b2", "b3", "d4", "d2", "q1", "q3", "q2", "q4", "s3", "s2", "s1", "s7", "s6", "s5", "s4", "m4", "m1", "m3", "arg1", "z3", "arg2", "arg3", "tol", "arg4", "m2", "a1", "a3", "s8", "a4", "z4", "z5", "z6", "z1", "z2", "c4", "f", "n", "a2", "t", "c2"], "tags": ["arctan", "arg", "argument", "argument of complex numbers", "complex number", "complex numbers", "mas104220122013CBA3_1", "mod", "modulus", "modulus argument form", "modulus of complex numbers", "quadrants and complex numbers"], "preamble": {"css": "", "js": ""}, "advice": "<p>Note that the arguments $\\theta$ of the complex numbers are in radians and have to be in the range $-\\pi &lt; \\theta \\le \\pi$.</p>\n<p>You have to be careful with using a standard calculator when you are finding the argument of a complex number.</p>\n<p>If $z=a+bi=r(\\cos(\\theta)+i\\sin(\\theta))$ then we have:$r\\cos(\\theta)=a,\\;\\;r\\sin(\\theta)=b$ and so $\\tan(\\theta) = b/a$.</p>\n<p>Using a calculator to find the argument via $\\arctan(b/a)$ works in the range $-\\pi &lt; \\theta \\le \\pi$ when the complex number is in the first or fourth quadrants &ndash; you get the correct value.</p>\n<p>However, The calculator gives the wrong value for complex numbers in the other quadrants.</p>\n<h4>Complex number in the Second Quadrant.</h4>\n<p>Since $\\arctan(b/a)$ does not distinguish between the second and fourth quadrants and the calculator gives the argument for the fourth quadrant you have to add $\\pi$ onto the calculator value.</p>\n<h4>Complex number in the Third Quadrant.</h4>\n<p>Since $\\arctan(b/a)$ does not distinguish between the first and third quadrants and the calculator gives the argument for the first quadrant you have to take away $\\pi$ from the calculator value.</p>\n<h4>a)</h4>\n<h5>Modulus</h5>\n<p>\\[ \\begin{eqnarray*} |\\var{z1}|&amp;=&amp;\\sqrt{(\\var{a1})^2+(\\var{b1})^2}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{abs(z1)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp;\\var{ans1} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h5>Argument</h5>\n<p><strong>{m1}</strong></p>\n<p>Hence we see that: \\[\\begin{eqnarray*} \\arg(\\var{z1}) &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg(z1)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg1}\\; \\mbox{radians} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h4>b)</h4>\n<h5>Modulus</h5>\n<p>\\[ \\begin{eqnarray*} |\\var{z2}|&amp;=&amp;\\sqrt{(\\var{a2})^2+(\\var{b2})^2}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{abs(z2)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp;\\var{ans2} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h5>Argument</h5>\n<p><strong>{m2}</strong></p>\n<p>Hence we see that: \\[\\begin{eqnarray*} \\arg(\\var{z2}) &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg(z2)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg2}\\; \\mbox{radians} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h4>c)</h4>\n<h5>Modulus</h5>\n<p>\\[ \\begin{eqnarray*} |\\var{z3}|&amp;=&amp;\\sqrt{(\\var{c2})^2+(\\var{d2})^2}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{abs(z3)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp;\\var{ans3} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h5>Argument</h5>\n<p><strong>{m3}</strong></p>\n<p>Hence we see that: \\[\\begin{eqnarray*} \\arg(\\var{z3}) &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg(z3)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg3}\\; \\mbox{radians} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h4>d)</h4>\n<h5>Modulus</h5>\n<p>\\[ \\begin{eqnarray*} |\\var{z4}|&amp;=&amp;\\sqrt{(\\var{a3})^2+(\\var{b3})^2}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{abs(z4)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp;\\var{ans4} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>\n<h5>Argument</h5>\n<p><strong>{m4}</strong></p>\n<p>Hence we see that: \\[\\begin{eqnarray*} \\arg(\\var{z4}) &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg(z4)}\\\\ &amp;=&amp; \\var{arg4}\\; \\mbox{radians} \\end{eqnarray*} \\] to 3 decimal places.</p>", "rulesets": {"std": ["all", "!collectNumbers", "fractionNumbers", "!noLeadingMinus"]}, "parts": [{"prompt": "\n      <p>$|\\var{z1}|=\\;\\;$[[0]], 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