Faculty of Engineering

Department of Mathematics
Dr. Ahmad Moursy

Linear Algebra - Assignment #4

Name: ID: Tutorial Nr.

ˆ Must be submitted to your TA before the deadline.

ˆ Answer all questions and show all the details of your work for full credit.

ˆ All questions have equal weight.

ˆ You are allowed to discuss your Lecturer or TA for a hint to solve the difficult problems!

1. (a) Show that B = {v1 = (3, 1, 1), v2 = (1, 2, −2), v3 = (2, 3, −1)} forms a basis for R3 .
(b) Find the coordinates for the vector (7, 2, −1) with respect to the basis B.

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2. Let W be a subspace of R4 , spanned by the vectors

v1 = (1, −2, 3, −3), v2 = (2, 3, 1, −4), v3 = (3, 8, −3, −5), v4 = (6, 9, 3, −12),

(a) Find a basis and the dimension of W .

(b) Extend the basis of W to a basis of the whole space R4 .

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3. Let W be a subspace of R5 , spanned by the vectors

v1 = (1, 2, −1, 3, 4), v2 = (2, 4, −2, 6, 8), v3 = (1, 3, 2, 2, 6), v4 = (1, 4, 5, 1, 8), v5 = (2, 7, 3, 3, 9).

Find a subset of the vectors which form a basis for W .

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4. Find bases for col(A) and null(A) of the given matrix A:
     
1 0 −1 2 1 −2 −1 1 1 3 1 6
(a) A =
1 1 1 (b) A = 4 4 −3 1  2 −1 0 1 −1
(c) A = 
−3

2 7 1 8 2 1 −2 1
4 1 6 1 3

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5. (a) Let V be a vector space, show that any orthogonal set of vectors in V is linearly
independent but the reverse is not true.
(b) Let A, B be an n × n matrices, with distinct eigenvalues, prove that A, B have the
same eigenvectors iff AB = BA.

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6. Find a matrix P that diagonalizes A, and determine Ad = P −1 A P
     
1 0 1 0 0 2 0 −2
(a) A =
6 −1 (b) A = 0 1 1 (c) A = 0 3 0
0 1 1 0 0 3

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7. Which of the following transformation is linear?
   
x1 x1
(a) T : R2 → R2 ; T = .
x2 x2 − x1
 
x1  
x + x2
(b) T : R3 → R2 ; T x2  = 1 .
x2 + x3
x3
   
2 2 x1 2x1
(c) T : R → R ; T = .
x2 2x22
   
x1 2x1
(d) T : R3 → R3 ; T x2  = x1 − x2 .
x3 x23 + x2
   
a b a+b 0
(e) T : M22 → M22 ; T = .
c d 0 c+d

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8. (a) Find the standard matrix of the transformation that first rotates a point 90◦
counterclockwise about the origin and then reflects the result in the x-axis.
(b) Determine whether projection onto the x -axis is an invertible transformation,
and if it is, find its inverse.

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