Eli5: why do we incorporate imaginary numbers in various physics equations.

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Eli5: why do we incorporate imaginary numbers in various physics equations.

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Complex numbers work particularly well to describe things relating to circular motion, or oscillation (which can be circular motion in one less dimension), because they give tools to handle the mathematics of this more simply than natural numbers do.

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