Solved Problems for Chapter 6

Show that the function defined by is also a linear transformation.

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Let be a fixed vector. The function defined by has the effect of translating all vectors by adding . Show that is not a linear transformation.

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Linear transformations take to which does not. Also .

Find the matrix for the linear transformation which rotates every vector in through an angle of

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Find the matrix for the linear transformation which rotates every vector in through an angle of and then reflects across the axis.

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Find the matrix for the linear transformation which rotates every vector in through an angle of and then reflects across the axis followed by a reflection across the axis.

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Let be a linear transformation induced by the matrix and let be a linear transformation induced by . Find matrix of and find for .

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The matrix of is given by . Now, .

Let be a linear transformation and suppose . Suppose is a linear transformation induced by the matrix . Find for .

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To find we compute .

Let be a linear transformation given by Find a basis for and a basis for . Find the dimension of the kernel and the image of .

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A basis for is and a basis for is .
There are many other possibilities for the specific bases. and .

Let be a linear transformation given by Find a basis for and a basis for .

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In this case and (pick any basis of ).

Let be a linear transformation given by What is ?

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We can easily see that , and thus .

Suppose is a linear transformation such that , and . Find the image of under .

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First, observe that . Therefore,

Suppose is a linear transformation that maps to , and to . Find vector such that .

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Observe that is induced by the matrix . We are looking for such that . Multiplying both sides by gives us

Bibliography

Some of the 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.

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