Engineering AC Circuits: Phasors/Polar to rectangular transformation

[sgonzalez90]

40<50degrees + 20<-30 degrees,
I get how to convert to rectangular,

I got 43.03 + j20.64, but converting it back to polar... how exactly do you do so? The answer is 47.72<25.63degrees... my book doesn't explain it.

Also with
(2+j4)(3-j5)... how exactly do you tackle this sort of problem? I tried the FOIL method and it didn't exactly work.


Thank you!

 

[sgonzalez90]

Homework Statement

40<50degrees + 20<-30 degrees,
I get how to convert to rectangular,

I got 43.03 + j20.64, but converting it back to polar... how exactly do you do so? The answer is 47.72<25.63degrees... my book doesn't explain it.

Also with
(2+j4)(3-j5)... how exactly do you tackle this sort of problem? I tried the FOIL method and it didn't exactly work.


Thank you!

 

[SirAskalot]

Length: |I|= sqrt(Re²+Im²)

sqrt(43²+21²)=48

Angle: < = arctan (Im/Re)

arctan (21/43) = 26 (deg)

Draw a phasor diagram and you see it easily. Simple geo/trig.

Part 2:
Either convert to polar form and multiply the length and add the angles, or just multiply out the two parenthesis inn a normal fashion. Remember j*j=-1

 

[Zryn]

Rectangular \rightarrow Polar

x + jy \rightarrow \sqrt{x^{2} + y^{2}} \angle tan^{-1}(\frac{y}{x})

There are a lot of calculators which can do this for you too!


(2+j4)(3-j5) ... FOIL is the way, expand the brackets first

2*3 + 2*-j5 + j4*3 + j4*-j5 ... simplify

6 - 10j + 12j - 20j*j ... keep in mind j = \sqrt{-1}, so j^{2} = -1

6 +2j + 20

26 + 2j