Challenge Problems for Chapter 6

Argue geometrically to prove that the following transformations are linear:
(a)
Rotation of the plane about the origin through angle .
(b)
Reflection of the plane about the line .
Find the matrix of the linear transformation which rotates every vector in counter clockwise about the axis when viewed from the positive axis through an angle of 30 and then reflects through the plane.

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Let be a linear transformation such that . Find .
Let be a non-zero vector in . Given any vector in , show there exists a linear transformation with .
Given in , define by for all in .
(a)
Show that is a linear transformation.
(b)
Show that every linear transformation arises in this way (i.e. for some in .)

Bibliography

Some of these problems come from Chapter 5 of Ken Kuttler’s A First Course in Linear Algebra. (CC-BY)

Ken Kuttler, A First Course in Linear Algebra, Lyryx 2017, Open Edition, pp. 272–315.

Some of these problems come from the end of Chapter 7 of Keith Nicholson’s Linear Algebra with Applications. (CC-BY-NC-SA)

W. Keith Nicholson, Linear Algebra with Applications, Lyryx 2018, Open Edition, pp. 376–386.

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