Exercise of complex variable, polynomials. Calculate the number of zeros in the right half-plane of the following polynomial:
$$z^4+2z^3-2z+10$$
Please, it's the last exercise that I have to do. Help TT. PD: I don't know how do it.

Proceed like the previous problem for first quadrant.
You will find one root.
And note that roots will be conjugates.
So 2 roots in the right half-plane..
For zero in the first quadrant, consider the argument principle: if $Z$ is the number of zeroes of $f$ inside the plane region delimited by the contour $\gamma$, then $\Delta_\gamma(\textrm{arg}f)=2\pi Z$, i.e. the variation of the argument of $f$ along $\gamma$ equals $Z$ times $2\pi$.
Take a path from the origin, following the real axis to the point $M>0$, then make a quarter of circle or radius $M$, reaching the point $iM$ and then go back to the origin along the imaginary axis. Now try to determine the variation of the argument of $f(z)$ along this path for $M\to\infty$:


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*along the real axis, the function is $f(t)=t^4-2t+2t^3+10$, therefore $f(t)$ is real for $t\geq0$ so the total change of argument along this part of the path is  $0$.

*along the path $Me^{i\theta}$ for $0\leq\theta\leq \pi/2$, if $M$ is very large, the function is near to $g(\theta)=M^4e^{i4\theta}$; therefore the argument goes from $0$ to $2\pi$.

*along the imaginary axis, the function's argument doesn't change.
So, the total change of the argument is $2\pi$, implying that the function has only one zero in that quadrant.

