Solved Problems for Chapter 9

Find an orthonormal basis for the span of the following set of vectors.

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We will use Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization algorithm.

Normalizing each vector we get:

Using the Gram Schmidt process find an orthonormal basis for the following span:

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Write as the sum of a vector in and a vector in if

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Observe that the two vectors that span are orthogonal. We will refer to these vectors as and .

Write as the sum of a vector in and a vector in if

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Observe that the three vectors that span form an orthogonal set. We will refer to these vectors as , and .

Bibliography

Some of the problems come from the end of Chapter 7 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. 433–438.

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