DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

Applied Engineering Analytical & Numerical Methods I
MEM 501/591 - Fall 2010
HOMEWORK #1: Due Thursday, September 30


1. [30 points]
i) Let Q
1
, Q
22

be unitary matrices. Prove that Q

1
Q
2
is also unitary.
ii) Given any A

, its eigenpair (,v)and its similarity transformation B=XAX
-1
, compute the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of B.
iii) Let

. Prove that

.


2. [20 points]
Consider the matrix

Compute by hand its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Show that its eigenvectors are orthonormal.

3. [20 points]
Consider the matrix

Compute by hand, a singular value decomposition of A.

4. [30 points]
Construct in MATLAB the following subroutines. Compare your code results with the ones you obtain by using built-
in commands in MATLAB.
i) Inner product of any two vectors.
ii) Any Matrix-Matrix multiplication.
iii) Any Vector 2-norm computation.