How Imaginary Numbers Make Real Physics Easier to Understand

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  • @ParthGChannel
    @ParthGChannel  2 года назад +15

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

    • @johnfitzgerald8879
      @johnfitzgerald8879 2 года назад

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

  • @TheWyrdSmythe
    @TheWyrdSmythe 2 года назад +36

    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 года назад +5

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

    • @TheWyrdSmythe
      @TheWyrdSmythe 2 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +3

      @@paulbloemen7256 Yep. Multiplication is rotation!

  • @MegaSquiff
    @MegaSquiff 2 года назад +105

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

    • @egonvanpraet
      @egonvanpraet 2 года назад +7

      +1

    • @family-accountemail9111
      @family-accountemail9111 2 года назад +2

      Plus 1 more

    • @camgere
      @camgere 2 года назад

      Your wish is my command. Math Challenge: Pythagoras, i, AC Circuits ruclips.net/video/AYFdhlqzH5c/видео.html Leave a comment to let me know how many seconds into it, it went off the rails.

    • @mzallocc
      @mzallocc 2 года назад

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

    • @arekkazmierowski9657
      @arekkazmierowski9657 2 года назад

      yes yes yes, I would love such series.

  • @dogood8750
    @dogood8750 2 года назад +38

    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 года назад +6

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

    • @masondaub9201
      @masondaub9201 2 года назад

      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 года назад +4

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

  • @uncle-ff7jq
    @uncle-ff7jq 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @zaynbashtash
    @zaynbashtash 2 года назад +16

    Electrical circuits series all the way! Great video as always

  • @sandeepkrishnar
    @sandeepkrishnar 2 года назад +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 года назад +1

    Man !!! You just saved my whole Classical Mechanics

    • @MrMackxl65
      @MrMackxl65 27 дней назад

      Which part of 'Classical Mechanics' uses imaginary numbers?

  • @UsamaThakurr
    @UsamaThakurr 2 года назад +4

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

  • @dean532
    @dean532 2 года назад +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..👍🏻👍🏻

  • @jmachadok
    @jmachadok 2 года назад +1

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

  • @OscarMorales-wn7ql
    @OscarMorales-wn7ql Год назад +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!

  • @eldersprig
    @eldersprig 2 года назад +2

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

  • @ScienceCommunicator2001
    @ScienceCommunicator2001 2 года назад

    This was well presented my guy! Well done!

  • @Ko_kB
    @Ko_kB 2 года назад +3

    Would love to see a video from you on electric circuits

  • @I_Am_AI_007
    @I_Am_AI_007 2 года назад +1

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

  • @diogomuzzi4015
    @diogomuzzi4015 2 года назад +2

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

  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis 2 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

    • @JohnVKaravitis
      @JohnVKaravitis 2 года назад

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

    • @marsbars1105
      @marsbars1105 2 года назад

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

  • @kadind7741
    @kadind7741 2 года назад +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

  • @stevenmeyerson8466
    @stevenmeyerson8466 2 года назад +1

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

  • @internationalfatherinlaw5585
    @internationalfatherinlaw5585 2 года назад +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.

  • @paulbloemen7256
    @paulbloemen7256 2 года назад

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

  • @germatech
    @germatech 2 года назад +1

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

  • @E8Ex3Msp
    @E8Ex3Msp 2 года назад +2

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

  • @aminnima6145
    @aminnima6145 2 года назад

    Thanks for this wonderful video. Clear as always

  • @garymangelsdorf520
    @garymangelsdorf520 2 года назад +1

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

  • @alexandervanhaastrecht7957
    @alexandervanhaastrecht7957 2 года назад +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 года назад

      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 года назад

      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.

  • @pizzarickk333
    @pizzarickk333 2 года назад

    your way of explaning is sooo damn good

  • @brettdavy3270
    @brettdavy3270 2 года назад +2

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

  • @petersavage7904
    @petersavage7904 2 года назад +1

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

  • @livvielov
    @livvielov Год назад

    This video needs more views! V good

  • @atanjacket
    @atanjacket 2 года назад +1

    Was thinking of doing my PhD thesis in Jeff analysis

  • @jcpmac1
    @jcpmac1 2 года назад

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

  • @eldenfindley186
    @eldenfindley186 2 года назад +1

    PLEASE DO make a circuit analysis video!

  • @alwaysdisputin9930
    @alwaysdisputin9930 2 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @dylenweerasekara9533
    @dylenweerasekara9533 2 года назад +1

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

  • @akiko009
    @akiko009 2 года назад +1

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

  • @madhavsoni2144
    @madhavsoni2144 2 года назад +1

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

  • @danielparadis7735
    @danielparadis7735 2 года назад

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

  • @sankimalu
    @sankimalu 2 года назад

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

  • @willlucas2491
    @willlucas2491 2 года назад

    Would love to see those 5 videos!

  • @benyeung9879
    @benyeung9879 2 года назад

    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.

  • @manuelofosu
    @manuelofosu 2 года назад

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

  • @fanindrasaini1223
    @fanindrasaini1223 Год назад

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

  • @Fernando.12.7.25
    @Fernando.12.7.25 2 года назад

    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.

  • @camgere
    @camgere 2 года назад

    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!

  • @stevenmeyerson8466
    @stevenmeyerson8466 2 года назад

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

  • @EEGBiofeedback
    @EEGBiofeedback 2 года назад

    Thank you! Very helpful!

  • @dhrumildave1451
    @dhrumildave1451 Год назад

    Yes, please. Very interested.

  • @__yuri__3.144
    @__yuri__3.144 2 года назад

    Thank u that was very helpful.

    • @__yuri__3.144
      @__yuri__3.144 2 года назад

      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.

  • @greatoak7661
    @greatoak7661 2 года назад +1

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

  • @parthasur6018
    @parthasur6018 2 года назад +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 года назад

      Newton lost just about everything gambling in the stock market.

    • @parthasur6018
      @parthasur6018 2 года назад

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

  • @syedzaid5771
    @syedzaid5771 2 года назад

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

  • @LiamAusden1
    @LiamAusden1 2 года назад

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

  • @donkeypoison
    @donkeypoison 2 года назад

    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.

  • @jaganathanjonathon8102
    @jaganathanjonathon8102 2 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @nisheethrastogi
    @nisheethrastogi 2 года назад

    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.

  • @malikasim3959
    @malikasim3959 2 года назад

    certainly need voltage related content

  • @cameronspalding9792
    @cameronspalding9792 2 года назад

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

  • @alwaysdisputin9930
    @alwaysdisputin9930 2 года назад

    TY. When you say 14:20 "such as the Aharanov-Bohm effect that i've discussed in this video here if you're interested" i am interested but i don't see anything. I dunno why. I'm using Opera on Windows 10 on PC. Do I need a mobile phone or to active annotations or something?

    • @ParthGChannel
      @ParthGChannel  2 года назад +1

      Ah sorry about that, the cards must not be working - the video is linked in the description too, here's the link: ruclips.net/video/YMjD8jevTUw/видео.html
      Thanks for your support!

  • @dharam4u2
    @dharam4u2 2 года назад

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

  • @myrddinwyllt3383
    @myrddinwyllt3383 2 года назад +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.

  • @Gcsm308
    @Gcsm308 2 года назад

    Really interested in the circuit video

  • @umeshchandramakwana806
    @umeshchandramakwana806 2 года назад

    Please make videos on electrical circuit in depth.

  • @harshitjuneja9462
    @harshitjuneja9462 2 года назад

    11:43 definitely!

  • @HalKworasmi
    @HalKworasmi 2 года назад +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

  • @alnabil07
    @alnabil07 2 года назад

    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?

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432 2 года назад

    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!

  • @issolomissolom3589
    @issolomissolom3589 2 года назад

    Plz make a video about e and the euler identity

  • @mayankkumar-px9we
    @mayankkumar-px9we 2 года назад

    Appreciate you sir

  • @greezygreen842
    @greezygreen842 2 года назад

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

  • @tomoki-v6o
    @tomoki-v6o 2 года назад

    I have problems in digesting the term 'density'

  • @mr.inhuman7932
    @mr.inhuman7932 2 года назад

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

  • @aviralxdd
    @aviralxdd 2 года назад

    yeah that electric circuit video would be amazing.

  • @ramit7
    @ramit7 2 года назад

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

  • @jwangosho
    @jwangosho 2 года назад

    I always like your video before watching it.

  • @Pavan_Gaonkar_abc
    @Pavan_Gaonkar_abc 2 года назад

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

  • @avuwep
    @avuwep 28 дней назад

    Could complex numbers be used in even more basic physics, like projectile motion? They are two dimensional numbers, so maybe they could be used to describe X and y velocities as one complex velocity

  • @rahulsinghbaghel80
    @rahulsinghbaghel80 2 года назад

    Is your merchandise available in India?

  • @jayfordbersamin6042
    @jayfordbersamin6042 2 года назад

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

  • @szymondudzinski6661
    @szymondudzinski6661 8 месяцев назад

    Please mate, do a video on electric circuits!

  • @GaneshAher1729
    @GaneshAher1729 Год назад

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

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @skyking9835
    @skyking9835 2 года назад

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

  • @nicholasesposito1212
    @nicholasesposito1212 2 года назад

    Yes please make a video about eulers identity

  • @byronwatkins2565
    @byronwatkins2565 2 года назад

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

  • @brendanhoxie2831
    @brendanhoxie2831 3 месяца назад

    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?

  • @JakubS
    @JakubS 2 года назад +1

    rotation

  • @chevasit
    @chevasit 2 года назад

    Good!

  • @seethemadness9241
    @seethemadness9241 2 года назад

    Plz make vdo on ac and dc motor

  • @MyrLin8
    @MyrLin8 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @nalat1suket4nk0
    @nalat1suket4nk0 2 года назад

    I like the idea of different level of electric corcuit

  • @StefanKoran
    @StefanKoran 2 года назад

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

  • @Nutshell_Mathematica
    @Nutshell_Mathematica Год назад

    Super awesome

  • @Atman77
    @Atman77 2 года назад

    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

  • @LuisAldamiz
    @LuisAldamiz 2 года назад

    All very interesting, as always, but they don't make physics easier *to understand* but rather *to operate* with. Understanding would mean that we understand what the imaginary part actually *is* and we don't.

  • @bharath__100
    @bharath__100 Год назад

    11:45 we need electric circuits 5 levels of difficulty

  • @joeo3377
    @joeo3377 Год назад

    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.

  • @brandonwootton5575
    @brandonwootton5575 2 года назад

    Do an electronics video!