How Imaginary Numbers Make Real Physics Easier to Understand

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  • @ParthGChannel
    @ParthGChannel  2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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    As always, let me know what other topics to cover in future videos :)

    • @johnfitzgerald8879
      @johnfitzgerald8879 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel it to be a shame that you left out complex power in the presentation of complex numbers in electrical circuits.

  • @MegaSquiff
    @MegaSquiff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Yes, certainly interested in a lecture about voltage and current, thanks.

    • @egonvanpraet
      @egonvanpraet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +1

    • @family-accountemail9111
      @family-accountemail9111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Plus 1 more

    • @camgere
      @camgere 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your wish is my command. Math Challenge: Pythagoras, i, AC Circuits th-cam.com/video/AYFdhlqzH5c/w-d-xo.html Leave a comment to let me know how many seconds into it, it went off the rails.

    • @mzallocc
      @mzallocc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Capacitors, inductors, then passive filters, active filters with op amps, digital filtering, FFT, diodes, transistors, circuit analysis, all this is cool.

    • @arekkazmierowski9657
      @arekkazmierowski9657 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes yes yes, I would love such series.

  • @TheWyrdSmythe
    @TheWyrdSmythe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I read once that Gauss wanted to call them “lateral” numbers which, given the complex plane, makes a lot of sense.

    • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
      @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Understanding i as a 90° counterclockwise rotation gives all the intuition for what imaginary numbers are.

    • @TheWyrdSmythe
      @TheWyrdSmythe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself: Yep, especially when you see multiplication by -1 as a 180° rotation that takes one from the positive part of the real number axis to the negative part (and vice versa). _Half_ of such a rotation (90°) necessarily amounts to sqrt(-1).

    • @paulbloemen7256
      @paulbloemen7256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheWyrdSmythe Yes, the -1 jumping from right to left and back when multiplying really explains in a way why multiplying two negative numbers results in a positive number. At school I just learned to apply the rule, without really getting it.

    • @TheWyrdSmythe
      @TheWyrdSmythe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@paulbloemen7256 Yep. Multiplication is rotation!

  • @dogood8750
    @dogood8750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thank you parth I'm really glad you made this video because I was always intrigued on how imaginary numbers would be used I've heard of them in my math classes but never used them to solve a physics problem so it's nice that you gave me your window onto how that would work

    • @ParthGChannel
      @ParthGChannel  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks for watching! I'll try to include even more concrete examples in future videos :)

    • @masondaub9201
      @masondaub9201 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another weird way you can use them is to integrate particularly tricky integrals that arise in physics using tricks like residue theorem

  • @WilliamDye-willdye
    @WilliamDye-willdye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Consensus: Imaginary numbers
    Gauss: Lateral numbers
    Parth: JEFF!

  • @zaynbashtash
    @zaynbashtash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Electrical circuits series all the way! Great video as always

  • @sandeepkrishnar
    @sandeepkrishnar ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish I had math and physics teachers like you during my school days... You make learning science more fun and beautiful! ❤

  • @malikasim3959
    @malikasim3959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man !!! You just saved my whole Classical Mechanics

  • @dean532
    @dean532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits” 5E is a good read, rather an easy to follow textbook on things that concern phasors, circuits and complex numbers too. Mathew Sadiku is an excellent writer on the topic of Electromagnetics too. These helped me a lot during my college days..and Parth does well in providing a lot of insight to young students these days..👍🏻👍🏻

  • @Ko_kB
    @Ko_kB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would love to see a video from you on electric circuits

  • @uncle-ff7jq
    @uncle-ff7jq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really enjoy your content. I initially saw some of your videos when I was getting into physics a while back. I really couldn’t understand the math but was able to pick up on your enthusiasm for the subject as well as gain insight with a layer of abstraction. I think personalities like yours are crucial to spreading these physical/mathematical ideas effectively. Upon coming across your channel now after having brushed up on some math, I’m left much more fulfilled and informed with the concision of your explanations, as well as your taste in content.

  • @UsamaThakurr
    @UsamaThakurr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you parth the structure of the video is really nice ❤️

  • @eldersprig
    @eldersprig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you go thru the related concepts of j^2=1, but j 1 and epsilon^2=0, but epsilon 0 ?

  • @kadind7741
    @kadind7741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome video! Would love to see more on this topic. I’m currently in quantum 2 and still don’t fully understand the interpretation of imaginary numbers in a system lol

  • @brettdavy3270
    @brettdavy3270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes. do the electric circuits referred to at time stamp 11:40

  • @OscarMorales-wn7ql
    @OscarMorales-wn7ql ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good Morning!
    The correct is ì² = -1
    And
    V-1 = { - i ; i }
    The principal Square of -1 in The set complex numbers is i
    We write V-1 = i ; so you must to indicate That this is a principal Square of -1 and that exist a second Square that is this - i.
    I wish you a Good Day!

  • @jmachadok
    @jmachadok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Make as many videos on as many concepts as you want, will watch them all.

  • @diogomuzzi4015
    @diogomuzzi4015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would really really love to see the video about electric circuits in 5 difficulties you mentioned!

  • @petersavage7904
    @petersavage7904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks, I understood how to put them in polar form but not what it actually represented

  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:30 Actually, +/- 2i.
    5:20 Yes, the square of the imaginary number is the product of that number and its complex comjugate.

    • @TheBasikShow
      @TheBasikShow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think you mean “the square of the length of the imaginary number”?

    • @JohnVKaravitis
      @JohnVKaravitis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheBasikShow I know what I meant. Do you?

    • @marsbars1105
      @marsbars1105 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah the square of the modulus is the number times its conjugate

  • @I_Am_AI_007
    @I_Am_AI_007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was just waiting for Parth to upload another interesting topic.

  • @stevenmeyerson8466
    @stevenmeyerson8466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely would love a video on circuits. Can you talk about the connection between resistance and impedance.

  • @E8Ex3Msp
    @E8Ex3Msp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    yeah it would be pretty nice, if you could do a video about eletric circuits, thanks for the vid btw

  • @internationalfatherinlaw5585
    @internationalfatherinlaw5585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can you make a more in depth video for simple harmonic motion and waves relationship to complex numbers like how we use the properties and all of that stuff.

  • @germatech
    @germatech ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes , i´m also interested in advanced circuit analysis & thank you very much for your videos on Physics

  • @alexandervanhaastrecht7957
    @alexandervanhaastrecht7957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually, i is defined such that i^2 = -1. This means that ‘solving for i’ gives two values ( sqrt(-1) and -1*sqrt(-1) ), so this is something you shouldn’t do. This is also the reason why sqrt(-4) is actually undefined, there is no positive square root for complex numbers because i can be considered neither positive nor negative.

    • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
      @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      sqrt(-4) = sqrt(-1 × 4) = sqrt(-1) × sqrt(4). Both of those factors are well-defined.
      Square roots aren't restricted to positive values, only _non-negative._
      i = sqrt(-1) _is_ non-negative.

    • @alexandervanhaastrecht7957
      @alexandervanhaastrecht7957 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the square root of a complex number always has two answers, even with real numbers. But with the real numbers, we can define a positive and negative square root of a number. The function sqrt(x) is conveniently designed to take the positive answer. In the complex world, there is no order, so we can’t define any of the two roots as the positive or negative square root (or rather, there are too many equally valid ways to do so). This means that any square root function should return two answers, or take a random answer. For example, sqrt(-4) can be both ‘2i’ and ‘-2i’, because (2i)^2 = -4 = (-2i)^2. Saying that the answer is ‘2i’ is just the same as being incomplete.

  • @atanjacket
    @atanjacket 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was thinking of doing my PhD thesis in Jeff analysis

  • @madhavsoni2144
    @madhavsoni2144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:37 yes! yes! yes!....... Pls make a video on euler's identity

  • @greatoak7661
    @greatoak7661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hell to the yeah would I love to see the Electronic discussion in 5 levels.!!!!

  • @garymangelsdorf520
    @garymangelsdorf520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, please do the other videos you talked about on circuits.

  • @fanindrasaini1223
    @fanindrasaini1223 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you so much for such a nice explaination, my main intrest was in understanding quantum physics relation to complex number.

  • @eldenfindley186
    @eldenfindley186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PLEASE DO make a circuit analysis video!

  • @alwaysdisputin9930
    @alwaysdisputin9930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm suspicious of the 13:30 "you can't have a 3i% chance of finding a particle in space" thing. Maths doesn't lie.

    • @stevenmeyerson8466
      @stevenmeyerson8466 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually at the cutting edge of QM there is some speculation about negative probability but not imaginary as far as I know.

  • @Fernando.12.7.25
    @Fernando.12.7.25 ปีที่แล้ว

    A set of axiomatic operations could be created whose operation was similar to that of complex numbers. The fact is, complex numbers being useful in physics doesn't mean they're fundamental to mathematics. In fact, the rule that multiplying two negative numbers returns a positive number, while useful in many real-life mathematical calculations, fails in many calculation jobs and that is why we need the concept of the absolute value of a number.

  • @pizzarickk333
    @pizzarickk333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    your way of explaning is sooo damn good

  • @willlucas2491
    @willlucas2491 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would love to see those 5 videos!

  • @nisheethrastogi
    @nisheethrastogi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:50 "We can chose to represent" - it is not a choice, by Euler's formula, Imaginary Numbers are orthogonal to real numbers. However, the choice of plane is arbitrary in a 3D space.

  • @dylenweerasekara9533
    @dylenweerasekara9533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey, G your Physics videos are awesome. Can you also make math videos.

  • @akiko009
    @akiko009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a great fan. My 12yo son gets a kick out of your videos, too. Keep it coming!

  • @jcpmac1
    @jcpmac1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Parth. VERY much interested in your proposed electric circuits video - particularly the beginner level!

  • @paulbloemen7256
    @paulbloemen7256 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clear explanation: thank you! I would like to see all the videos you mentioned, me having the feeling I might actually get them.

  • @parthasur6018
    @parthasur6018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Euler's identity leads to the beautiful result: exp(i π) = 1 or if you prefer exp(i π) - 1 = 0. Here exp is the alternative functional notation to represent "e raised to the power of" whatever follows in the parenthesis. If you were asked "Which 5 significant symbols (constant entities?) of mathematics would you invite to dinner?" The answer most certainly would be those present already in the identity above - e, i, π, 1 and 0! Just imagine how much mathematics and physics you could do with these 5 entities alone. By the way Euler is my favorite mathematician. He (besides being a mathematical genius) was a really wonderful person. Unlike Newton who was a really obnoxious person in his personal and public life.

    • @mzallocc
      @mzallocc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Newton lost just about everything gambling in the stock market.

    • @parthasur6018
      @parthasur6018 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mzallocc And sent many people to the gallows who were politically inconvenient to him - when he was master of the mint.

  • @dhrumildave1451
    @dhrumildave1451 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes, please. Very interested.

  • @malikasim3959
    @malikasim3959 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    certainly need voltage related content

  • @germánciliurczuk
    @germánciliurczuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really interested in the circuit video

  • @greezygreen842
    @greezygreen842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes plz, i have to take the circuit exam this semester

  • @harshitjuneja9462
    @harshitjuneja9462 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:43 definitely!

  • @stevenmeyerson8466
    @stevenmeyerson8466 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would love a talk about theory and application of Fourier, wavelets, splines, etc.

  • @ScienceCommunicator2001
    @ScienceCommunicator2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was well presented my guy! Well done!

  • @livvielov
    @livvielov ปีที่แล้ว

    This video needs more views! V good

  • @camgere
    @camgere 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I first ran into imaginary numbers in junior high school. The teacher said something like "imaginary numbers don't exist, but they are useful in some things like electric circuits." Luckily, my high school algebra teacher had a math degree and wasn't having it, but the damage was already done. This is a great explanation!

  • @aviralxd3583
    @aviralxd3583 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    yeah that electric circuit video would be amazing.

  • @manuelofosu
    @manuelofosu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, a video on Euler's Identity will be helpful. Thanks by the way.

  • @danielparadis7735
    @danielparadis7735 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much Parth. Can you give the 5 lectures on electrical circuits and the pseudo Ohms law you emphasize?

  • @dharam4u2
    @dharam4u2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for educating us...I now know what my professors never explained.

  • @ramit7
    @ramit7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely do the 5 level difficulty for electr[on]ic circuits

  • @sankimalu
    @sankimalu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I, for one, would like to leave a standing election on any physics videos Parth would like to make: an unqualified YES!

  • @jaganathanjonathon8102
    @jaganathanjonathon8102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I might be wrong but I thought even with a resistor the voltage and current have a 90 deg offset. One is sine wave and the other a cousine wave.
    Hope you can can clarify, thanks.

    • @cosecxiitbhu799
      @cosecxiitbhu799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, in an only resistive circuit, the voltage and current are essentially in the same phase. In Capactive or Inductive circuits, we can have one lagging behind the other.

    • @jaganathanjonathon8102
      @jaganathanjonathon8102 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cosecxiitbhu799 Thanks, seems I was wrong, it’s been years since I did AC circuits.

  • @skyking9835
    @skyking9835 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    To answer your question, Euler's Identity can not (imho) be over discussed.

  • @cameronspalding9792
    @cameronspalding9792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    @2:29 was that an outtake that you decided to keep in

  • @alnabil07
    @alnabil07 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a question. If the root of 1 (√1) exist in the real numbers axis, the why the √(-1) doesn't exist in the real numbers axis? Why we have to use another axis?

  • @aminnima6145
    @aminnima6145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this wonderful video. Clear as always

  • @mr.inhuman7932
    @mr.inhuman7932 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd be intested in a Video about electric circuits!

  • @syedzaid5771
    @syedzaid5771 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would definitely like to see a video on circuits and on electric currents in general

  • @jayfordbersamin6042
    @jayfordbersamin6042 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    lecture about electronic components soon, it is fun they say. *electroboom joins in*

  • @jwangosho
    @jwangosho 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always like your video before watching it.

  • @donkeypoison
    @donkeypoison 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He perfectly knows what to tell vs. to skip (like no parentheses when multiply compl. numbers, 2:51). And OMG I'm going to call compl. numbers »Jeff« for the rest of my live, hilarious!🤣Speaking about names: He used the approp. name for the Argand plane. 1st time I saw this-ever.

  • @benyeung9879
    @benyeung9879 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks a lot for such a detailed explanation to complex numbers, but I still don't understand regarding the computation of complex numbers where the real part is taken at last.
    Part of the "real part results" from the multiplication is contributed by the imaginary part of the original complex numbers, which were considered as "not interested", but they are actually involved in the "interested part" of the final result, I still don't understand that.
    Recently, I was studying the Fraunhofer diffraction which is an application of Fourier transform, some textbooks are mentioning the same idea.

  • @HalKworasmi
    @HalKworasmi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For the oscillator, complex numbers are not a convenience. The Space of position-speed is thé complex plane. In that case, complex exponential solution is thé REAL solution

  • @szymondudzinski6661
    @szymondudzinski6661 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Please mate, do a video on electric circuits!

  • @LiamAusden1
    @LiamAusden1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video! A video on electric circuits in 5 levels of difficulty would be wonderful

  • @GaneshAher1729
    @GaneshAher1729 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah yes, Aharonov-bohm effect. That's what i needed to understand complex numbers in real life.

  • @nicholasesposito1212
    @nicholasesposito1212 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes please make a video about eulers identity

  • @issolomissolom3589
    @issolomissolom3589 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plz make a video about e and the euler identity

  • @nalat1suket4nk0
    @nalat1suket4nk0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the idea of different level of electric corcuit

  • @brendanhoxie2831
    @brendanhoxie2831 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please help!!!
    The cubic root of 1 is
    -0.5 + 0.86602540378444 i
    Time slows by 50% (-0.5) when traveling at 86.60254037% the speed of light!
    It's also the cosine of 30
    Does anyone want to tell me what's going on here?

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Parth - Thanks; excellently clear explanation as always. But ne thing has always =puzzled me. You take a maybe-impossible 'thingie', 'i', then boldly assert you can add or multiply units of 'i'. That's one questionable thing. You then boldly assert you can add a real and imaginary 'number' (who said this thing was a 'number' in any conventional sense?) to produce what looks disconcertingly like a vector - one component of which is certainly no conventional number. Again, what justifies this aside from 'suck it and see?' Eh? Eh? There. I feel better already, anticipating your explanation!

  • @__yuri__3.144
    @__yuri__3.144 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank u that was very helpful.

    • @__yuri__3.144
      @__yuri__3.144 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I learned complx nbers before but now I understand them more, however I have a little suggestion. Until now I've watched all your videos . I suggest that u add a little bit of soft bass music , it will kinda help with the explanation , don't know why lol. And I am gladly interested in circuit videos that would be super helpful.

  • @tomoki-v6o
    @tomoki-v6o 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have problems in digesting the term 'density'

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @byronwatkins2565
    @byronwatkins2565 ปีที่แล้ว

    i itself is periodic, i^5 = i, so it should be no surprise that some functions of i are periodic.

  • @mayankkumar-px9we
    @mayankkumar-px9we 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Appreciate you sir

  • @MyrLin8
    @MyrLin8 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No seriously, call it Jeff :) excellent video. tks.

  • @myrddinwyllt3383
    @myrddinwyllt3383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When my solution ends up with an imaginary number in the answer... I'm just trying to make physics easier to understand.
    Actually it's usually because I put it in the calculator wrong.

  • @EEGBiofeedback
    @EEGBiofeedback 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you! Very helpful!

  • @bharath__100
    @bharath__100 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:45 we need electric circuits 5 levels of difficulty

  • @seethemadness9241
    @seethemadness9241 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plz make vdo on ac and dc motor

  • @umeshchandramakwana806
    @umeshchandramakwana806 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please make videos on electrical circuit in depth.

  • @rahulsinghbaghel80
    @rahulsinghbaghel80 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is your merchandise available in India?

  • @StefanKoran
    @StefanKoran 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jeff-Numbers, whatever it takes, i will try to establish this. Way too funny to ignor^^

  • @Atman77
    @Atman77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pleae can you mak a video or suggest me something on physics lab work/practical work. Because I am doing masters in physics. And I really hate doing labwork. Please

  • @chevasit
    @chevasit 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good!

  • @Nutshell_Mathematica
    @Nutshell_Mathematica ปีที่แล้ว

    Super awesome

  • @jairam2788
    @jairam2788 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want videos on electric circuit sir

  • @JakubS
    @JakubS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    rotation

  • @PTGaonkar
    @PTGaonkar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video again parth thank you. BTW when are you going to visit India?

  • @brandonwootton5575
    @brandonwootton5575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do an electronics video!

  • @joeo3377
    @joeo3377 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just wanted to mention that they are called complex numbers because they have more than one part. In this case, "complex" is being used in the same sense as an apartment complex.

  • @Nekuzir
    @Nekuzir 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where are the dual complex quaternions represented in matrix form?

  • @blue_crafty5899
    @blue_crafty5899 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg thx