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EP 307: Quantum Mechanics I Linear Algebra Tutorial Sheet

This document provides 9 practice problems involving linear algebra concepts such as vector spaces, bases, linear transformations, matrices, eigenvalues, and matrix exponentiation. The problems cover representing operators in different bases, checking linear independence of vectors, finding coordinates in different bases, obtaining matrix representations under different bases, checking diagonalizability of matrices, defining inner products, applying the Gram-Schmidt process, finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and calculating and inverting matrix exponentiation.

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EP 307: Quantum Mechanics I Linear Algebra Tutorial Sheet

This document provides 9 practice problems involving linear algebra concepts such as vector spaces, bases, linear transformations, matrices, eigenvalues, and matrix exponentiation. The problems cover representing operators in different bases, checking linear independence of vectors, finding coordinates in different bases, obtaining matrix representations under different bases, checking diagonalizability of matrices, defining inner products, applying the Gram-Schmidt process, finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and calculating and inverting matrix exponentiation.

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EP 307: Quantum Mechanics I

Linear Algebra Tutorial Sheet


This tutorial sheet deals with some problems aimed at refereshing your knowledge of
linear algebra.
1. Consider the vector space P 3 (x) spanned by polynomials of degree three. Using the
standard basis {1, x, x2 , x3 }, obtain a representation for the rst-derivative operator
d
in P3 .
dx
2. Show that the vectors
1 = (1, 0, 1),

2 = (1, 2, 1),

, 3 = (0, 3, 2)

form a basis for R3 . Express the coordinates of the standard basis vectors in the new
basis set.
3. Let B = {1 , 2 , 3 } be the ordered basis for R3 consisting of
1 = (1, 0, 1),

2 = (1, 1, 1),

3 = (1, 0, 0).

What are the coordinates of the vector (a, b, c) in the ordered basis B .
4. Let T : R3 R3 , be a linear transformation dened by
T (x1 , x2 , x3 ) = (2x1 + x2 , x1 + x2 + 3x3 , x2 ).

(a) Obtain the representation of T with respect to the standard basis.


(b) Let there be another basis B = (v1 , v2 , v3 ), where v1 = (1, 0, 0), v2 = (2, 1, 0),
v3 = (1, 1, 1). Obtain the representation of T with respect to B , by applying a
suitable similarity transformation on the result of part (a).
5. Consider the matrix

3
0
2

2
0
A= 0
.
2 0 1

Is A a diagonalizable matrix?. If yes, demonstrate it by nding a similarity transformation P which will diagonalize it. If no, give reasons.
6. Let A be a 2 2 matrix with real entries. For X, Y in R21 let
fA (X, Y ) = Y T AX.

Show that fA is an inner product on R21 if and only if A = AT , A11 > 0, A22 > 0,
and det (A) > 0.

7. Consider the space of polynomials with the degree at most two (P 2 (x)). Assume that
the denition of the inner product on this space is
(p|q) =

Z 1

p(x)q(x)dx,

where p(x), q(x) P 2 (x).


(a) Clearly the standard basis set for P 2 (x) is B = {1, x, x2 }. Is this basis set
orthogonal?
(b) If your answer to part (a) is no, then obtain an orthonormal basis set for P 2 (x)
using the Gram-Schmidt procedure.
8. Consider the real-symmetric matrix

3 2 0
3 0
A=
2
.
0
0 5

Obtain its eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and thus, construct an orthogonal matrix O
which will diagonalize A.
9. Consider the matrix

2 1
1

2 1
A = 1

1 1
2

Calculate eA . Is eA inverse of eA ? Support your answer by calculations.

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