CS 1401 Assignment #8, Solutions

Date Assigned: Monday, March 19, or Tuesday, March 20, 2007.

Due Date: Monday, March 26, or Tuesday, March 27, 2007, before the beginning of your lab section.

Objective: The main objective of this assignment is to learn to design user-defined classes and ADTs.

Programming assignment: a complex number a + bi is characterized by its real part a and its imaginary part b. For complex numbers, the absolute value is defined as |a + bi| = sqrt(a^2 + b^2), a conjugate is defined as (a + bi)' = a - bi. Arithmetic operations are defined as follows:

(a + bi) + (c + di) = (a + c) + (b + d)i
(a + bi) - (c + di) = (a - c) + (b - d)i
(a + bi) * (c + di) = (a * c - b * d) + (a * d + b * c)i
(a + ib)/(c + id) = (ac + bd)/(c^2 + d^2) + i(bc - ad)/(c^2 + d^2) if c + id =/= 0.

Describe a class whose elements are complex numbers, and methods include:

Use your class in the main program to create the number i (as 0 + 1i) and to check that i * i is indeed -1 (i.e., -1 + 0i).


Solution:

public class Complex
{
  //real part and imaginary part
  private double re;
  private double im;

  //constructor
  public Complex(double real, double imag)
    {re = real; im = imag;}

  //assessor methods
  public double getRe()
    {return re;}

  public double getIm()
    {return im;}

  //mutator methods
  public void setRe(double newRe)
    {re = newRe;}

  public void setIm(double newIm)
    {im = newIm;}

  //absolute value and conjugate
  public double absValue()
    {return Math.sqrt{re^2+im^2;}

  public Complex conjugate()
    {return new Complex(re,-im);}

  //arithmetic operations
  public Complex add(Complex secondNumber)
  {
     double newRe = re + secondNumber.getRe();
     double newIm = im + secondNumber.getIm();
     return new Complex(newRe, newIm);
  }

  public Complex subtract(Complex secondNumber)
  {
     double newRe = re - secondNumber.getRe();
     double newIm = im - secondNumber.getIm();
     return new Complex(newRe, newIm);
  }

  public Complex multiply(Complex secondNumber)
  {
     double newRe = re * secondNumber.getRe() - im * secondNumber.getIm();
     double newIm = re * secondNumber.getIm() + im * secondNumber.getRe();
     return new Complex(newRe, newIm);
  }

  public Complex divide(Complex secondNumber)
  {
     double secondRe = secondNumber.getRe();
     double secondIm = secondNumber.getIm();
     double denominator = secondRe * secondRe + secondIm * secondIm;
     double newRe = (re * secondRe + im * secondIm) / denominator;
     double newIm = (im * secondRe - re * secondIm) / denominator;
     return new Complex(newRe, newIm);
  }
}

public class Assignment8
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Complex i = new Complex(0,1);
    Complex test = i.multiply(i);
    double real = test.getRe();
    double imag = test.getIm();
    System.out.printll("The square of i is equal to" + real + "+" +
      image + "i.");
  }
}
Homework assignment: on a separate sheet of paper, solve Ex. 6 from p. 520 and Ex. 16 from p. 522.

Deliverables: as instructed by your TA.