Tutorial 8

SC-220 Groups and Linear Algebra Autumn 2019

(Linear transformations)
(1) Which of the following from R2 to R2 is a linear transformation
(a)T (x1 , x2 ) = (1 + x1 , x2 )
(b)T (x1 , x2 ) = (x2 , x1 )
(c)T (x1 , x2 ) = (x21 , x2 )
(d)T (x1 , x2 ) = (sin(x1 ), x2 )
(e)T (x1 , x2 ) = (x1 − x1 , 0)
     
2 2 x y x
(2) Let T : R → R be defined by T = for all ∈ R2
y −x y
(a) Show that T is surjective.
(b) Find dim (null (T)).
(c) Find the matrix for T with respect to the canonical basis of R2 .

(3) Let T be a linear transformation from R3 to R2 defined by

T (x1 , x2 , x3 ) = (x1 + x2 , 2x3 − x1 )
(a) What is the matrix of T relative to the standard ordered basis in R3 and R2
respectively.
(b) What is the matrix of T relative to the ordered basis in B = {u1 , u2 , u3 } in R3
and B 0 = {v1 , v2 } in R3 where
u1 = (1, 0, −1), u2 = (1, 1, 1), u3 = (1, 0, 0) and v1 = (0, 1), v2 = (1, 0).

(4) Let T bea linear operator

 on R3 the matrix representation in the standard ordered
1 2 1
basis is  0 1 1. Find the basis for the range of T and the null space of T .
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(5) Let T be the linear operator on the space of 2 × 2 complex matrices such that
T (A) = At . Find a matrix representation of T with respect the basis Eij where Eij
are matrices that have the (i, j)th element 1 and 0 elsewhere.