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The Impossible Number

Curious Cases

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Complex Numbers in Physics

Complex numbers are basically a mix of a real number and an imaginary number. Tell us why it's useful in oscillations. To think about anything that's got to do with angles and circles and periodic motion, I need you to go back and imagine our real number line again. So all the way going down to the negative numbers up into the positive numbers, lay your normal numbers out on a line.

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