Starting at angle θ=40° on the unit circle. Squaring doubles the angle to 80° (green). Cubing triples it to 120° (red). The point just rotates: its distance from the origin stays 1.

The 6th roots of unity form a regular hexagon on the unit circle. The nth roots of z^n = 1 always form a regular n-gon, equally spaced at angles 2πk/n = τk/n.

When you multiply two complex numbers, their angles (arguments) add and their magnitudes multiply. If both numbers sit on the unit circle (magnitude 1), only the angles change. Multiplying n times adds the angle n times: that is De Moivre's theorem.