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Seminar 08

This document contains 13 problems related to linear algebra concepts like eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrices, rotations, and isometries. The problems involve finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of various matrices, determining the effect of rotations on geometric objects, working with rotation matrices, verifying that matrices represent proper rotations, and showing a property of isometries.

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Seminar 08

This document contains 13 problems related to linear algebra concepts like eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrices, rotations, and isometries. The problems involve finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of various matrices, determining the effect of rotations on geometric objects, working with rotation matrices, verifying that matrices represent proper rotations, and showing a property of isometries.

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Problem set iulian.simion@ubbcluj.

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Eigenvalues and eigenvectors.


1. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the following matrices in Mat2×2 (R):
" # " # " # " #
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
, , , .
0 −1 0 1 1 1 1 1

2. Consider the matrix " #


0 1
A=
−1 0
Show that A doesn’t have eigenvectors when considered in Matn×n (R). Show that A is diagonalizable
when considered in Matn×n (C) and find the eigenvectors of A.
3. Give the eigenvalues of lin(PrH,v ), lin(RefH,v ). What can you say about the eigenvectors?
4. Let φ : R3 → R3 be the linear map

φ(x, y, z) = (x + y − z, y + z, 2x).

Find the matrix Mb,b (φ) where


b = {(1, 1, 0), (−1, 0, 1), (1, 1, 1)}.
5. Calculate the eigenvalues and their algebraic and geometric multiplicities for the following ma-
trices in Mat3×3 (R), and deduce whether or not they are diagonalizable:
   
−6 2 −5 1 0 0 
−4 4 −2 , 0 −3 −15 .
   
   
10 −3 8 0 2 8

6. Find the eigenvectors for each of the following symmetric matrices:


" # " # " #
73 36 −94 180 128 240
A= , B= and C = .
36 52 180 263 240 450

We will use these matrices to discuss examples of conic sections.


Rotations.
7. The vertices of a triangle are A(1, 1), B(4, 1) and C(2, 3). Determine the image of the triangle ABC
under a rotation by 90° around C followed by an orthogonal reflection relative to the line AB.
8. Determine the sum-of-angles formulas for sine and cosine using rotation matrices.
9. Let T be the isometry obtained by applying a rotation of angle − π3 around the origin after a
transation with vector (−2, 5). Determine the inverse transformation, T −1 .
10. Determine the matrix form of a rotation with angle 45° having the same center of rotation as the
rotation " # " #
1 2 −3 1
f (x) = √ x+ .
13 3 2 −2

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11. Determine the cosine of the angle of the rotation f given in the previous exercise and find the
inverse rotation, f −1 .

12. Verify that the matrices


   
−1 2 −2 −9 −2 6
1 1 
A = −2 −2 −1 and B=  6 −6 7
 
3 11   
−2 1 2 2 9 6

belong to SO(3). Moreover, determine the axis of rotation and the rotation angle.

13. Show that an isometry is bijective.

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