MATH 447: Tutorial III

Monday, October 21 19/20

Exercises are mostly taken from Zill and Shanahan’s book.

1 Exponentials and Logarithms

1. Determine the subset in C for which each of the following functions are differentiable:
(a) f (z) = exp(2z + i)
(b) g(z) = exp(z 2 ).
2. Determine the image of each of the following sets under the complex exponential map-
ping:
(a) the horizontal line y = −1
(b) the vertical line x = 2
(c) the infinite strip 1 < x ≤ 2
(d) the rectangle 0 ≤ x ≤ ln 2, −π/4 ≤ y ≤ π/2.
3. Find the principal values of the following logarithms:
(a) Log(−e2 )
(b) Log(1 + i)4
(c) Log(3 − 4i).
4. Find all complex values of z satisfying the given equations:
(a) exp(1/z) = −1
(b) exp(z − 1) = ie3 .
5. Find a domain in which the given function f is differentiable, and then find the derivative:
(a) f (z) = 3z 2 − exp(2iz) + iLog(z)
Log(2z − i)
(b) g(z) =
z2 + 1
6. Find the image of the given set under the mapping w = Log(z):
(a) the positive y-axis
(b) the ray arg(z) = π/6
(c) the region in the first quadrant bounded by the circles |z| = 1 and |z| = e
(d) the punctured disk 0 < |z| ≤ 1
(e) the region outside the unit circle |z| = 1 and between the rays arg(z) = π/4 and
arg(z) = 3π/4.

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7. Find all complex values satisfying each of the given trigonometric equations:
(a) sin z = i
(b) cos z = i sin z
(c) sinh z = −1
(d) sinh z = exp(z).

2 Complex Integration
8. Evaluate the given integrals along the given contours:
Z
(a) (2z − z) dz, where C is x = −t, y = t2 + 2, 0 ≤ t ≤ 2
C
Z
(b) Re(z) dz, where C is the circle |z| = 1
C
Z
(c) exp z dz, where C is the polygonal path consisting of the line segments from
C
z = 0 to z = 2 and z = 2 to z = 1 + πi
Z
(d) Im(z − i) dz, where C is the path consisting of the circular arc along |z| = 1 from
C
z = 1 to z = i and the line segment from z = i to z = −1
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(e) z exp(z) dz, where C is the square with vertices z = 0, z = 1, z = 1 + i, and
C
z = i.

3 Cauchy’s Theorem and Cauchy’s Integral Formula

9. Evaluate the given integrals along the indicated closed contours:
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1
(a) z+ dz; |z| = 2
C z
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z
(b) 2 2
dz; |z| = 3
C z −π
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2z + 1
(c) 2
dz; |z − 3i| = 1
C z +z
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3 1
(d) − dz; |z| = 5
C z + 2 z − 2i
z2
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(e) 2
dz; |z| = 3
C z +4

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z
(f) dz; |z| = 2
C (z + i)4
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exp(−z) sin z
(g) dz; |z − 1| = 3
C z3
10. By whatever means evaluate
ez
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− 3zdz for C the circle |z| = 1.
C z +3

Explain why
ez
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3
− dz
C z+3 z
is equal to the integral above and why in view of the result
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dz 2πi n = 1
=
C (z − z0 )
n 0 n 6= 1

the latter integral is slightly easier to evaluate.

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11. Write down the value of exp z dz for any simple closed contour C in the complex
C
plane.
Using the contour |z| = 1 and the parametrization z = eit , 0 ≤ t ≤ 2π, evaluate the real
integral Z 2π
ecos θ sin(θ + sin θ) dθ.
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