Examination 2Section BTechnologyCN2CN1

Question 1 · 11 marks

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The tip of a robot arm moves in a horizontal plane, modelled as the complex plane with the pivot of the arm at the origin OO and distances in metres. The tip starts at z0=23+2iz_0 = 2 \sqrt{3} + 2 i. A turn command rotates the arm anticlockwise about OO through π6\frac{\pi}{6} without changing its length, so after nn turn commands the tip is at zn=(cis(π6))nz0z_n = \left(\mathrm{cis}\left(\frac{\pi}{6}\right)\right)^{n} z_0.
(a)
Write down z0z_0 in polar form, with the principal argument.
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