FACULTY OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

BMFG1313 ENGINEERINF MATHEMATICS 1

SEM 1 2021/2022

Tutorial 1
1. Given the matrices

1  5 6 
  3 2 1 
a   2  , b   0 1 1 , C    , D  7 8 
 0  1 2 1 9 10 

Evaluate, where possible

(a) a + b (b) bT + a (c) b + CT (d) C + D (e) DT + C

2. Given the matrices

1 0 1   1 1 0 
A   2 2 0  , B   1 0 1 .
 

 0 1 2   0 1 1 
Evaluate C in the following 3 cases:
(a) C = A + B (b) 2A + 3C = 4B (c) A - C = B + C

3. Solve for the matrix X

 3 2 1  2 3 1 
X2  .
7 2 6   4 6 2 

4. Find the values of x, y, z and t from the equation

 x y  x  t  1 2
t  z  .
 z  1   0 1 

5. Given the matrices

1 2
1 2 1   4 1 3
A  , B  , C   3 1  .
3 0 2   0 2 1  2 3 

Which of the following make sense: AB, AC, BC, ABT, ACT abd BCT?
6. Given the matrices

0 1 
1 0 1   2 1
A  , B  1 0  , C   .
2 1 2  1 2 
0 1 

Evaluate where possible for AB, BA, BC, CB, CA, AC.

7. For the matrices

1 1 0 1 
A  , B 
0 1 1 0
(a) Evaluate (A + B)2 and A2 + 2AB + B2
(b) Evaluate (A + B)(A - B) and A2 – B2

Repeat the calculations with the matrices

1 2   2 2 
A  , B 
5 2   5 1 
And explain the differences between the results for the two sets.

8. For the matrix

2 0
A ,
3 1
adj ( A )
Evaluate A , adj ( A), B  and AB.
A

9. Find the values of 𝜆 that make the following determinants zero:

2 7
(a)
4 6

1 3 4
(b) 4 2 1
1  6 2

0 2 0
(c) 2 4 1
2 3  4
10. Determine whether the following matrices are singular or non-singular and find the inverse of
non-singular matrices

 1 j
(a)  j 2
 

1 2 3 
(b)
0 1 2
 
 2 3 1 

11. Solve the system of linear equations

a) 4𝑥 − 8𝑦 + 𝑧 = −21
4𝑥 − 𝑦 + 𝑧 = 7
−2𝑥 + 𝑦 + 5𝑧 = 15

b) 17𝑥 − 2𝑥 − 3𝑥 = 50
−5𝑥 + 21𝑥 − 2𝑥 = 20
−5𝑥 − 5𝑥 + 22𝑥 = 3

c) −𝑦 + 10𝑧 + 𝑥 = −7
20𝑥 + 3𝑦 − 2𝑧 = 51
2𝑥 + 8𝑦 + 4𝑧 = 25

by using
i) Gauss elimination
ii) Gauss-Seidel iteration accurate to within 𝜀 = 0.001
iii) LU decomposition