PROBLEMS FOR JAMES JULY 16

ELIOT LEVMORE

1. Determinant problems
 



1 0
2 0
k 0
(1) Find the determinant of
,
, and
0 1
0 2
0 k




1 2
1 3
(2) Find the determinant of
and
3 4
2 4

1 2 3
1 4 7
(3) Find the determinant of 4 5 6 and 2 5 8
7 8 9
3 6 9


(4) If you dont know it already, look up the definition of the transpose of a matrix A (usually
written AT . Considering the results of the above questions, what can you say about the
determinants of A and AT , when A is a 2x2 matrix? 3x3 matrix? nxn matrix?

1 2 3
(5) Find the determinant of 4 5 6
0 0 0
(6) Find the image of each of the vertices of the (3-dimensional) unit cube under transformation
of

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
and under transformation of

1 2 3
4 5 6
0 0 0
and under transformation of

1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
and under transformation of

3 0 0
0 2 0
0 0 1
For reference, the vertices are (0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1) . . . , (1, 1, 1).
Try to draw the images of the unit cube under each transformation, in three dimensional
space. Also, find the determinants of these last two matrices.

Date: July 17, 2015.

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