2nd Midterm exam
MATH 2331-Linear Algebra Summer 1 2015
To obtain full credit, you must show all work and carefully justify all assertions.
‘The use of notes, books and a calculator is not permitted.
NAME:
(1) Consider the matrix
012030
7 (0 0 0 1 490
000001
ov0000
1) (5 pts.) Find a basis of the Kernel of A.
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s 3
xa 0) ol |
Se Lot |
. ro bosis vectocs
FO,xs2/, Rye % Vea for leer (4)
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(b) (6 pts.) Find a basis of the Image of A.
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i 0 7 7
. (3] ie} Vee
: ¢(2) (10 pts.) Determine whether the following vectors form a basis of R*
1 1 1 1
1 -1 2 ~2
wei] w=] w=ly) w=] 7
il -1 8 -8
' ' 7: ' q \
' a ff
_— Z - a invert ble:
{el 8 ee
fi ion 1 |
Bo] 2 ee | g
;2 9 3.0 m1 9 0 3 »o \|s3 ~
a. a
terangular vith nonvero
Miagonal votre 5
A is invertible
Vn basis.
(3) (10 pts.) Find the orthogonal projection of 9¢, onto the subspace W of R! spanned
by the vectors
2
2
1
0
voy, = -4444 040-0 > o1¥ho gon ah.
Whe (eT 3 = hm ye by and ue by, altered
> pol [4e,)- (4(4) Consider the following vectors in R*:
1 0 1
walt ols le
ae th 2 1
G 7, 6
(a) (Gpts.) Perform the Gram-Schmidt process on v,, U2, Us to obtain orthonormal
Vectors 1; Up. iy
v 4] (
tye Tags eg 1a to 0 iv: [1] \.
is
i
!Q-0
&
a
(b) (4 pts.) Express your answer as the QR factorisation of a matrix V (note: you
are simply asked to give the matrix V and matrices Q,R such that V = QR.)
ni
0 4 : = .
is Ue 4a 2 16 10 1 io
Vie
rif ware go |[o 2
ve Mo(5) Let 9,6 be two fixed angles and consider the matrix
singcos@ cosdcos —sin#
A=| sindsind cosgsin? cos?
cosp | sing 0
(a) (5 pts.) Show that A is an orthogonal matrix.
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sinh 69 sin bsin® cos Sing Od cord cont -sin
Coo} 39 (orp Sin - Sing Sind So os gan cr
in cos . et tind 5
(b) (5 pts.) Find the inverse A~? of A
Sia & wos B En hsin® esd
at. AT = (2 b Lot e4 Sin® — ~ Sin 4
~Sin 8 or? 0
(checked vs pe ca)! )(6) Consider the system Ax = where
i ‘a
=(10 and b= [3
o1 3,
(a) (7pts.) Find a least squares solution 2* of A,
x*. (ATA)'ATL.
5
(b) (8 pts.) Is this solution unique? Justify your oye
so is solution of Ax -ATb
yes since ker (ATA) = oy > {0}
syslens 5 consist, ond har auc gent &
cosk 1 —sink
(7) Consider the matrix A=[ 0 2 0
lution !
sink 0 cosk
‘a) @pts.) Compute the determinant of A.
ak (A): Zork .O10- Cassk)-O-0 = 2
(b) (Spts.) Determine the values of & for which A is invertible.
deb (A)22 40 Fo all k jm Ais sve tible
for all values of k.(8) opts.) Compute the determinant, Laplace cxpantite
00300 j
00002 jd 300 420
04000 -+5it 328 Bicol |e cal
goo1o Vb ojo gR Vo
5-0.0-0-0 ie :
= 25 a). 543-(.2)2 -l20
(9) (10 pts.) Use row operations to compute the determinant
ee ! -l
-1 21 6f4r o |
20114 10}-2r Po = _
-2 6 10 33 }4eT \ Y
io g
ft) ae fii
|
|e 7 : | os 4
feo io hl o
\ 2
Os cm | 0 ° ° 4 |
=r dk A+ 4 (product of dingord extnes
of han quter matrix)(10) ‘True or false? (No justification is required for your answers to the questions below.
A correct answer is worth 1 point, no answer is worth 0 points, and an incorrect
answer is worth -1 points)
(a) Ifay,...,¥, and ay,...,t4, are two bases of R", then n must be equal to m.
alt bares of R° wust hove
\ the same Catdinality «10
(>) 1A is a 5 x 6 matrix of rank 4, then dim Ker A is equal to 1
tank nelly thes
FE lin (ter I vein ie )= 6 ~> dim(hesP) = 2
cose T®D <4
(c) The image of a 3 x 4 matrix is a subspace of R!
cabspare of RY
(a) Ifyy,...,u, span R', then n must be equal to 4,
by YW
Twill oe. yyreker thea, of ered ty
FE nell only sf Wa are | early indepen duct
(e) There exists a 5 x 4 matrix whose image consists of all of R°.
by rank nullity thm,
2 dion Cart) <4
(2) If the vectors 11, 9,¥,24 are linearly independent in R", then the vectors
4, Ug, Ug must be linearly independent.
if CM Oh cry, -O, wha ¢
7 Youn V+ r¥2t C3¥yt Ovy - 7
(g) If the vectors v;,u2, ug, U4 Span a subspace W of R", then the vectors v;, Us. Uy
must be also span 1.
re 9 ra |]
(h) If a subspace W of RS contains the standard vectors €;,€0,€5, then W must
be RY
_ din W = cank(e,,¢, € 2
ray ce i
ie Yume,
2, Span
Sima Wee Subspace
(i) If W is a subspace of R" of dimension m, then m < n.
basis of Whas im elommts thot are
indepprdak ve RO o> men
(j) If the kernel of a matrix A consists of the zero vector only, then the columns
of A must be linearly independent.
: A: Cy
> : C
Cvt 4 Cay =
since lee @ = 49], tha colomns
must be linearly ince por duct
and fe
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