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1013 - Mathematics Matrices Questions

The document contains 6 questions involving matrix operations such as addition, multiplication, powers, and inverses. Question 1 asks to perform several operations on 3 given matrices. Question 2 evaluates a matrix multiplication. Question 3 shows powers of a 2x2 matrix. Question 4 deals with a linear combination of 2 matrices. The remaining questions involve inverses, powers, and conjugation of matrices.

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1013 - Mathematics Matrices Questions

The document contains 6 questions involving matrix operations such as addition, multiplication, powers, and inverses. Question 1 asks to perform several operations on 3 given matrices. Question 2 evaluates a matrix multiplication. Question 3 shows powers of a 2x2 matrix. Question 4 deals with a linear combination of 2 matrices. The remaining questions involve inverses, powers, and conjugation of matrices.

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MATRICES

Exercises 3
 1 2  3  3 1 2  4 1 2
     
1. Given A   5 0 2  B   4 2 5  and C   0 3 2 
1 1 1   2 0 3 1  2 3
     
(a) Compute that A+B and A-C
(b) Verify that A+(B+C) = (A+B)+C
(c) Compute AB, BA and ACT

Q(2). Evaluate :
 0 1 3  1 4 5   12 12 5 
    
 4 5 6  6 3 2    46 49 36 
 7 3 2  2 3 1   29 43 43 
    

1 2   9  4   7 30 
Q(3). If A    , show that A 2    and A 3   
 4  3    8 17   60  67 
 1  2  2 3 2 2
   
Q(4). If A   1 2 1 , B   - 1 0 - 1 
 1 1 0   - 3 - 3 - 2
   

Show that {kA  (1  k )B}2  I , k being a scalar.

 2  1 x   8   0 
Q(5). Find x, y such that          .
  3 4  y   1   0 
 1 2 4
 
Q(6).Express the matrix  2 3  1 as the sum of symmetric and skew
3 1 4 
 
symmetric matrix.

 1 2 1/ 2  0 7 / 2
   
S   2 3 0  and T   0 0 1 
1 / 2 0 4   7 / 2 1 0 
   

Exercises 3.5
 3  3 4
 
Q(1). If A   2  3 4  , show that A 3  A 1 .
0 1 1
 

 3 2 2
 
Q(2). Find the Inverse of (a)  2 5 3  ,
1 2 1
 

1 3 7
 
(b) A   4 2 3 
1 2 1
 
Use elementary row operations
 2 0  1
 
Find the inverse of the matrix  5 1 0  by elementary row transformations.
0 1 3 
 

1  a 1
 
Q(5). If A   b 0 2b  then, show that
0 a 0 

(i) A 3  abA  A 2  abI , is satisfied

(ii) Show also that A 2n


A  
 
 ab n  1 2  ab ab n 1  1 
 I , where n is a positive
 ab  1   ab  1 

6.(a) Show that every 2x2 matrix such that X T AX  B, where

 1   1 
1 0  0 1 a  a 
A    , B    has one of the forms  2a  or  2a 
 0  1 1 0  a 1 
  - a 1 

  2a   2a 

(b) If P  QRQ 1 , show that P n  QR n Q 1 where n is a positive integer.

 
Try P 2  QRQ 1 QRQ 1  QR 2 Q 1 
 
Similarly P 3  QR 2 Q 1 QRQ 1  QR 3 Q 1
In general P n  QR n Q 1

 5  2  2 1  - 2 0
( c) Let P    and Q   , show that Q 1PQ    . Hence
 7  4  7 1  0 3

find P n .

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