Square root of a complex number

It follows that one square root of a complex number (where = ) is given by ... 

The square root of a complex number is a number that will yield the first number when multiplied by itself. Just as with real numbers, there are two square roots of a complex number. If z = re, one of the square roots is given by... 

When the dielectric function itself is complex, we must take the square root of a complex number or n = Ve where the tildes represent complex quantities. We can write... 

Neither of equations (iii) or (iv) are solutions to equation (7.46). However, if n was such that n2 was negative, then both functions would be solutions to the equation. This would require us to define the square root of a negative number, which is at odds with our understanding of what constitutes a real number. In Chapter 2, Volume 2, we extend the concept of the number to include so-called imaginary and complex numbers, which embrace the idea that the square root of a negative number can be defined. 

Complex numbers owe their origin to the quest for the square root of a negative number. Thus the so-called imaginary number i = is a fundamental element of complex numbers, written as z = X + iy, in which x is the real part and y is the imaginary part. Although real numbers quantify physical quantities, complex numbers provide very convenient representations of many physical phenomena. In quantum mechanics, the wave function is a complex function. Two-dimensional, incompressible, irrotational flows are represented by a complex flow potential, w = 9 h- t /, with 9, the velocity potential, as the real part, and /, the stream function, as the imaginary part. 

A complex number consists of two parts a real and a so-called imaginary part, c = a + ib. The imaginary part always contains the quantity i, which represents the square root of -1, i = /—1- The real and imaginary parts of c are often denoted by a = R(c) and b = 1(c). All the common rules of ordinary arithmetic apply to complex numbers, which in addition allow extraction of the square root of any negative number. If... 

We denote the set of complex numbers by C. Readers should be familiar with complex numbers and how to add and multiply them, as described in many standard calculus texts. We use i to denote the square root of —1 and an asterisk to denote complex conjugation if x and y are real numbers, then (x + iy) = X — iy. Later in the text, we will use the asterisk to denote the conjugate transpose of a matrix with complex entries. This is perfectly consistent if one thinks of a complex number x + iy as a one-by-one complex matrix ( x + iy ). See also Exercise 1.6. The absolute value of a complex number, also known as the modulus, is denoted... 

Operations on complex numbers all start with IM, and use text strings to squeeze the two components of a complex number into one cell. In order to use the results of complex number operations, you must therefore first extract its real and imaginary components, using IMREALO and IMAGINARY () Instead of i you can use j to denote the square root of minus one (which you must then specify as such), but you cannot use the corresponding capitals, I or /. 

Modulus ma-j3-l3s -li [NL, fr. L, small measure] (1753) n, pi. (1) A modulus is a measure of a mechanical property of a material, most frequently a stiffness property. (2) The absolute value of a complex number or quantity, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts. (3) Modulus at 300% n The tensile stress required to elongate a specimen to three times its original length (200% elongation) divided by 2. Although other elongations are used, 300% is the one most often employed for rubbers and flexible plastics. 

The determination of the number of the SHG active complex cations from the corresponding SHG intensity and thus the surface charge density, a°, is not possible because the values of the molecular second-order nonlinear electrical polarizability, a , and molecular orientation, T), of the SHG active complex cation and its distribution at the membrane surface are not known [see Eq. (3)]. Although the formation of an SHG active monolayer seems not to be the only possible explanation, we used the following method to estimate the surface charge density from the SHG results since the square root of the SHG intensity, is proportional to the number of SHG active cation com-... 

The PFs gi gy] are a set ofg2 complex numbers, which by convention are all chosen to be square roots of unity. (For vector representations the PFs are all unity.) PFs have the following properties (Altmann (1977)) ... 

In a rheomety experiment the two plates or cylinders are moved back and forth relative to one another in an oscillating fashion. The elastic storage modulus (G - The contribution of elastic, i.e. solid-like behaviour to the complex dynamic modulus) and elastic loss modulus (G" - The contribution of viscous, i.e. liquid-like behaviour to the complex modulus) which have units of Pascals are measured as a function of applied stress or oscillation frequency. For purely elastic materials the stress and strain are in phase and hence there is an immediate stress response to the applied strain. In contrast, for purely viscous materials, the strain follows stress by a 90 degree phase lag. For viscoelastic materials the behaviour is somewhere in between and the strain lag is not zero but less than 90 degrees. The complex dynamic modulus ( ) is used to describe the stress-strain relationship (equation 14.1 i is the imaginary number square root of-1). 

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