Homework 2

February 28, 2024

5. Show that anti-Hermitian matrices’ diagonal elements need to be pure

imaginary or zero.
⎡ ⎤
⎢a b c d⎥⎥
⎢
6. If A = ⎢ ⎥, find the elementary matrix E s.t.
⎢ ⎥
⎢e f g h⎥
⎣ ⎦
⎡ ⎤
⎢a b c + kb d⎥⎥
⎢
AE = ⎢ ⎥.
⎢ ⎥
⎢e f kf + g h⎥
⎣ ⎦
7. Discuss and solve the following system of linear equations AX = B, where
⎡ ⎤ ⎡ ⎤ ⎡ ⎤ ⎡ ⎤
⎢3 6 3b + 1⎥⎥ ⎢x1 ⎥ ⎢6⎥ ⎢3⎥
⎢ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
A = ⎢⎢2 4 b + 2 ⎥, X = ⎢x2 ⎥, and B = ⎢4⎥ + d ⎢⎢2⎥⎥, b and d are constants.
⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢1 2 3 ⎦ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢0⎥
⎣ ⎣x3 ⎦ ⎣6⎦ ⎣ ⎦
⎡ ⎤
⎢2 1 3 ⎥⎥
⎢
⎢ ⎥
8. A = ⎢⎢−4 −1 2 ⎥⎥, find A−1 by Gauss-Jordan Method.
⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥
⎢ 3 −11 −1⎥
⎣ ⎦
⎡ ⎤
⎢6 1 1⎥
⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥
9. A = ⎢2 1 1⎥⎥, calculate ∣A∣ by the Laplace’s method:
⎢
⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥
⎢6 4 8⎥
⎣ ⎦
3
(a) ∣A∣ = ∑ a2k c2k
k=1
3
(b) ∣A∣ = ∑ ak3 ck3 .
k=1