Objectives: Students will know how to perform operations with complex numbers and plot complex numbers in the complex plane.
Need to check your calculations?
The complex numbers applet does symbolic calcluations of complex numbers.
How are complex numbers related to polynomial functions?
This lesson explains the connection and includes an applet to help you visualize the connection
Connecting complex roots to a parabola's graph
Looking for more connections?
Understanding complex numbers are necessary to understand fractal geometry.
Example of the Julia Set
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2854/gallery.html
Fractal geometry is used to describe much of the natural world. It is also connected to famous artists, like Jackson Pollack.
Jackson Pollack, Abstract Painting and Fractals
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