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The idea or concept involved in this problem is relating the rectangular form of a complex number to its polar and exponential forms.
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You are given a complex number in rectangular form and asked to write the number both in polar form and exponential form.
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Okay, before we start this problem, let's go over a little background.
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A complex number in rectangular form can be thought of as some complex number z is x plus y times i.
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And you have x is equal to r times a cosine of theta and y is equal to r times a sine of theta.
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R is equal to the square root of x squared plus y squared and also the tangent of theta is equal to y over x.
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Or you could say theta is the inverse tan of y over x.
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Okay, so with all of that information, we can now start working with this problem.
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Okay, with the problem that you're given, x is the negative square root of 3, and y is a positive 1.
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So when i put this in polar form, i need to know what r is, and i need to know what theta is, so i can get the cosine and the sign of those two numbers.
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Okay, so let's work with r first...