How do you solve a quadratic equation with imaginary numbers? - Answers

You just plug in the coefficients, and do the normal operations. Of course you have to know how to calculate with complex numbers. Assuming the coefficients are real, you may at some moment get the root of a negative number. Say, for instance, you have the square root of minus 2, then the solution of that part is the square root of plus 2, multiplied by i.If the original coefficients are complex, you may have to calculate the root of a complex number. This is a little more complicated. For this, you convert the complex number to polar coordinates - that is, to a length and an angle. Then, to actually take the square root, you take half the angle, and the square root of the distance - and convert back to rectangular coordinates (separating the real and the imaginary part). (For the second solution, add 180 degrees to the angle.)