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What is the norm of a complex exponential?

After class today, a student asked me the following question:

$ \left| e^{j \omega} \right| = ? $

Please help answer this question.


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Answer 1

By Euler's formular

$ e^{j \omega} = cos(j \omega) + i*sin(j \omega) $

hence,

$ \left| e^{j \omega} \right| = \left|cos(j \omega) + i*sin(j \omega) \right| = \sqrt{cos^2(j \omega) + sin^2(j \omega)} = 1 $

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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