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Expert solutions Elementary Linear Algebra

Exercise 20b
Chapter 5, Section 5.1, Page 300

Elementary Linear Algebra

ISBN: 9781118473504

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Step 1 1 of 4

to find the eigenvalues and a basis for the eigenspace for this
transformation all we have to do is find the eigenvalues and a basis for the
eigenspace of the standard matrix for the transformation which from
section 4.9 we see is

−sinθ
A=[ ]
cosθ
sinθ cosθ

with

θ = 180°

−1 0
A=[ ]
0 −1

also we know that if a standard matrix A applies an operation on x where

at the same time x is an eigenvector of A then it will be true that

T (x) = λx geometrically this means that the vector x will not change
direction, only length after the operation

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Step 2 2 of 4

so we want to find a vector v that don't change direction when they are
rotated by 180 degrees

and we want to do this geometrically

Step 3 3 of 4

example of projection rotation with 180 degrees, blue line original vector ,
red line rotated vector

Step 4 4 of 4

we can see from above that no matter the vector after the operation it
will not change direction but it will change the way the arrow is facing
and it will not change length this means that the eigenvalue here is

λ = 1 and the basis for this eigenspace is R2

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