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Certificate of Registration Media number Эл #ФС77-53688 of 17 April 2013. ISSN 2308-6033. DOI 10.18698/2308-6033
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Article

Graphical and analytical study of complex roots of the cubic equation with a parameter

Published: 10.10.2013

Authors: Kopaev A.V., Sobolev S.K.

Published in issue: #5(17)/2013

DOI: 10.18698/2308-6033-2013-5-741

Category: Engineering education

The article deals with real and complex roots of the cubic equation with one parameter. Graphic dependences of these roots on the real parameter, as well as their asymptotic behavior are presented, without using explicit formulas for the roots of cubic equation in which they are expressed via the parameter, but on the contrary, considering the parameter as a function of the roots. The graphic dependence of these roots on the complex parameter is also presented on the complex plane. It constitutes a nomogram for the approximate determination of all three complex roots for any value of the complex parameter. The material can be useful to teachers, and used by them for additional classes with the students.