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Excel Solve Eigenvalue

This document provides instructions for using Microsoft Excel's Goal Seek tool to find the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. It explains that you should define the matrix, enter an initial eigenvalue guess, and use Goal Seek to set the determinant of the matrix minus the eigenvalue times the identity matrix to zero by varying the eigenvalue. The eigenvalue that makes the determinant zero is one of the matrix's eigenvalues.

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Excel Solve Eigenvalue

This document provides instructions for using Microsoft Excel's Goal Seek tool to find the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. It explains that you should define the matrix, enter an initial eigenvalue guess, and use Goal Seek to set the determinant of the matrix minus the eigenvalue times the identity matrix to zero by varying the eigenvalue. The eigenvalue that makes the determinant zero is one of the matrix's eigenvalues.

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Solving for Eigenvalues in Symmetric Matrices Using MS Excel Instructions: Define your matrix, matrix_A. Enter an initial guess of an eigenvalue, lambda. Using Goal Seek, set det(matrix_A-lambda*I), the determinant of matrix_A-lambda*I, to zero by changing lambda. The eigenvalue that Excel solves for will replace your initial guess.

matrix_A 4 1 4 1 7 1 4 1 4 This is the matrix. matrix_I 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 This is the identity matrix. matrix_A_lambda_I -2 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 -2 This is matrix_A-lambda*I.

lambda det(matrix_A-lambda*I)

6 Enter here your initial guess of an eigenvalue. 0

Please note that det(matrix_A-lambda*I) will display zero if your initial guess matches an actual eigenvalue.

ro by changing lambda.

guess of an eigenvalue.

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