MATH 632 MIDTERM EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS

These are practice questions for the exam on Friday 8th March, covering material from HW 1-5.

1. Find all complex solutions to the equation z 2 + z + 6 = 0.

2. Find all complex solutions to the equation z 5 = i and plot them on a diagram.

z−i
3. If z = reiθ , in terms of r and θ find the real and imaginary parts of .
z+i
ez − e−z
4. Find a power series for tanh(z) centred at z = 0. Recall the formula is tanh(z) = .
ez + e−z
What do you think the radius of convergence is?

5. Find the radii of convergence for the following power series:

∞ ∞ ∞
X X z n! X an n
(i) (n!)z n , (ii) , (iii) z , a ∈ C.
n! n2
n=0 n=0 n=0

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6. Compute a power series about z0 = 1 − i for f (z) = .
i+z

7. Sketch the image of the path γ under the exponential function, where γ looks like the following
staircase: start at 0, move one unit right to 1, then move π/2 units up to 1 + iπ/2, then move one
unit right etc.

8. Find all complex solutions to the equation ez = 4i.

9. Find all values of the expression (1 + i)(1+i) .

10. Find where the function f (x + iy) = |x|2 − |y|2 + 2i|x||y| is complex differentiable and where it
is analytic.

11. Suppose that f is analytic on C and f (C) is contained in the line Re(z) = Im(z). Prove that f
is constant.