Mock exam on Further Linear Algebra

October, 24th 2015

1  3
1. Consider A   . Check whether A is normal. Find a unitary matrix
3 1 

P and a diagonal matrix D such that P * AP  D .Check that P is unitary.

 x
 
2. Consider two subspaces in R 3 : U consists of vectors  y , satisfying
z
 

x  y  2z  0 , vectors from W satisfy 3x  2 y  z  0 . Find the basis in U  W .

Find two pairs of vectors: a pair  a, b provides an orthonormal basis in U ,
a pair  a, c provides an orthonormal basis in W . Is it true to say that
 a, b, c gives an orhonormal basis in R 3 ?
3. A linear transformation T : R 3  R 3 given by T ( x )  Ax , where A is a matrix.
How can you tell that T is a projection from R 3 onto some space U

 5 8  4
 
parallel to some subspace W ? Let A 3 5  3 . Determine both
1 2 2 
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subspaces U and W in terms of their bases. Show that R 3  U  W .

4. Sketch a graph of the curve 6 x 2  4 xy  3 y 2  28 in xy -plane by applying to it
a linear transformation after which equation becomes aX 2  bY 2  c where
a , b, c are some constants.