We learn to recognize and sketch special sets in the complex plane.

1 Circles and Disks

2 Lines and Half Planes

3 Ellipses and Hyperbolas

4 Other Curves

If and are differentiable functions of the real variable and if and do not both vanish simultaneously, then is a smooth curve. Furthermore, if , but for all , then is called a simple closed curve.

5 Problems

(problem 1) Sketch each the following:
\begin{align*} i) & \; |z+1-i| = 2 \\ ii) & \; |z-1| + |z+i| = 4 \\ iii) & \; Re(z) \geq 2 \\ iv) & \; \gamma (t) = (t-1) + it^2, 0\leq t \leq 2 \\ v) & \; |i- z| < 3 \\ vi) & \; |z-i| - |z+i| = 1 \\ vii) & \; \gamma (t) = 2\cos t + 2i\sin t , \pi /4 \leq t \leq 3\pi /2 \\ viii) & \; 1 < |z -2i| < 4 \\ ix) & \; |z| > 1 \\ x) & \; \gamma (t) = \cos t |\cos t| + i\sin t |\sin t|, 0 \leq t \leq 2\pi \end{align*}

Here is a video solution to problem 1viii:

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Here is a video solution to problem 1x:

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