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This document contains a tutorial on Linear Algebra and Matrices, focusing on eigenvalues and eigenvectors of various matrices. It includes exercises on finding eigenvalues, constructing matrices with specific properties, and exploring the behavior of eigenvectors under transformations. Additionally, it discusses the implications of real matrices and their eigenvalues.

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Tut 07

This document contains a tutorial on Linear Algebra and Matrices, focusing on eigenvalues and eigenvectors of various matrices. It includes exercises on finding eigenvalues, constructing matrices with specific properties, and exploring the behavior of eigenvectors under transformations. Additionally, it discusses the implications of real matrices and their eigenvalues.

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Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara

MA 102: Linear Algebra and Matrices


Tutorial 7

1. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the following matrices. How


many maximal
 linearly independent eigenvectors does a matrix have?
5 0 0 0  
8 −4 0 0 1 2 2
a) A = 0 7 1 0, b) B = 2 1 2
  
2 2 1
1 −5 2 1
     
0.6 0.3 3/7 0.5
2. Let A = , v1 = , x0 = .
0.4 0.7 4/7 0.5
a) Find a basis of R2 consisting of v1 and another eigenvector v2 of A.
b) Write x0 as v1 + cv2 for some scalar c.
c) Let xk = Axk−1 for k ≥ 1. Compute x1 , x2 and write a formula for
xk . Show that xk converges to v1 as k increases.

3. Construct a 3 × 3 matrix which has only one eigenvalue but does not
have three linearly independent eigenvectors over R.
 
100 4 −3
4. Compute A , where A = .
2 −1
     
1 1 0
5. Let v1 = 0 , v2 = 1 , v3 = 0 be eigenvectors of A3×3 . Then find
    
0 1 1
T
eigenvectors of A .

R3 and
6. Let B = {e1 , e2 , e3 } be standard basis of   {v1 , v2 , v3 } be another
x1
basis of R3 . Define T : R3 → R3 as T (x2 ) = (x3 − x2 )v1 − (x1 +
x3
x3 )v2 + (x1 − x2 )v3 . Find maximal linearly independent eigenvectors of
T.
 
a −b
7. Find an invertible matrix P and a matrix C of the form such
  b a
5 −5
that A = P CP −1 , where A = .
1 1

1
 
5 −2
8. Let A = with eigenvalue 4 − i. Find u, v ∈ R2 such that
1 3
Au = 4u + v, Av = −u + 4v. Compute A(u + iv).

9. Let A be an n × n real matrix with the property that AT = A. Show


that if Ax = λx for some nonzero vector x in Cn then in fact, λ is
real number and the real part of x is an eigenvector of A. (Show that
xT Ax ∈ R and examine the real and imaginary parts of Ax.)

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