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This document provides instructions and exercises for a Linear Algebra 1 final exam. It defines polynomials and the vector space of polynomials. It then presents 4 exercises involving properties of polynomials, matrix representations of linear transformations, change of basis, and determining invertibility. Students are instructed to hand in their paper by 12 noon and not use red ink.

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Exam Exercises

This document provides instructions and exercises for a Linear Algebra 1 final exam. It defines polynomials and the vector space of polynomials. It then presents 4 exercises involving properties of polynomials, matrix representations of linear transformations, change of basis, and determining invertibility. Students are instructed to hand in their paper by 12 noon and not use red ink.

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University of Luxembourg

Lecturer: Dr. Alexander D. Rahm


Tutor: Dr. Binbin Xu

Linear Algebra 1 for the B.I.C.S. programme, final exam

Instructions: Hand in your paper until 12 noon – the room is booked for three hours. Please do not use any red
pencils / red ink.

n
Definition. A polynomial pn := α0 + α1 · t + α2 · t2 + . . . + αn · tn =: αj · tj with variable t and coefficients αj
P
j=0
in a field F for all j ∈ {0, . . . , n} has degree deg(pn ) = n if tn is the highest power of t occurring in pn and αn 6= 0.
The vector space Pn of polynomials of degree at most n, with variable t and coefficients in F, is the set
( )
n
P j
Pn := αj · t αj ∈ F for all j ∈ {0, . . . , n}
j=0

equipped with the natural addition and multiplication of polynomials.

Exercise 1. Show that t2 + t + 1, t2 + t + 2 are linearly independent in P2 . Which of the


vectors 1, t, t2 can be added to those two polynomials in order to obtain a basis for P2 ? If there
is more than one of these three vectors that works, then provide all of them.
       
2 2 x 0 D 2 2 x 0
Exercise 2. Let px : R → R , 7→ . Let px : R → R , 7→ . Find
y y y y−x
   
1 0
matrix representations Ax for px and AD D
x for px with respect to the standard basis , for
0 1
both domain and codomain. Compute the matrix products A2x = Ax · Ax and (AD 2
x ) . How is Ax
2 D D 2
related to Ax , and how is Ax related to (Ax ) ?
 
1 1
Exercise 3. Let A := , and consider the linear map
2 3

LA : R2 → R2 , x 7→ A · x
   
1 0
with respect to the standard basis , for R2 . Find the transformed matrix T such that
0 1
the same map LA can be expressed as

LA : R2 → R2 , x 7→ T · x
   
1 0
with respect to the non-standard basis , for R2 (use this non-standard basis on both sides
1 1
of the arrow, domain and codomain).

Exercise 4.
 
3 1 7
a) Let M := 3 2 4. Is M invertible? If so, compute the adjoint matrix of M and the
4 2 8
inverse M . Check that M · M −1 is the identity matrix.
−1

 
0 0 x
b) Let M as in the above exercise, and let N := M − 0 x 0 .
0 0 0
Find all the values for x ∈ R such that N is not invertible.

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