Year: 2005
Paper: 3
Question Number: 6
Course: UFM Pure
Section: Complex numbers 2
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In this question, you may use without proof the results
\[
4 \cosh^3 y - 3 \cosh y = \cosh (3y)
\ \ \ \ \text{and} \ \ \ \
\mathrm{arcosh} \, y = \ln ( y+\sqrt{y^2-1}).
\]
\noindent[
{\bf Note: } $\mathrm{arcosh}y$ is another notation for
$\cosh^{-1}y\,$]
Show that the equation $x^3 - 3a^2x = 2a^3 \cosh T$
is satisfied by $ 2a \cosh \l \frac13 T \r$
and hence that, if $c^2\ge b^3>0$,
one of the roots of the equation $x^3-3bx=2c$
is $\ds u+\frac{b}{u}$, where
$u = (c+\sqrt{c^2-b^3})^{\frac13}\;$.
Show that the other two roots of
the equation $x^3-3bx=2c$ are the roots of the
quadratic equation
\[\ds x^2 + \Big( u+\frac{b}{u}\Big) x + u^2+\frac{b^2}{u^2}-b=0\, ,\]
and find these roots in terms of $u$, $b$ and $\omega$,
where $\omega = \frac{1}{2}(-1 + \mathrm{i}\sqrt{3})$.
Solve completely the equation $x^3-6x=6\,$.