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EQUA TION S
 Vector Equation
CONTENT Vector in R²
Geometric Description of R²
Parallelogram rule for Addition
Vector in R³
n

Vector in R
Linear Combination
A Geometric Description of Span {v}
And Span {u,v} in R³
 Vector
Equation

Important properties of linear s y s t e m c a n be described with the

concept a n d notation of vectors . This section connects equations
involving vectors of ordinary s y s t e m of equations .The term vector
ap p e ars in a v a riety of m a them a tic a l a nd p hy s ic a l c ontexts .
 Vector in R²
A Matrix with only one column is called a Column
Vector, or simply a vector. [ ]4
-3

Examples of vectors with two entries are:

u= [ ]
5
-3
v= [ ]6
w
-2
w= [ ] w2
1

Where w and w are any real number. T he set of all vectors which entries is denoted
1 2

by R (read "r-two"). The R stands for the Real numbers that appear as entries in the
vectors, and the exponent 2 indicates that each vector contains two entires.
Given two vectors u and v in R their sum is the vector u+v obtained by
adding corresponding entires of u and v. For Example,

[ ]+ [ ] = [
5
-3
4
1
5+4
-3+1 ] [=
9
-2

the ]
Given a vector u and a real number c, the scalar multiple of u by c is
vector cu obtained by multiplying each entry in u by c for instance.

if u= [
5
-3 ] and c=5
then, cu= 5[
5
-3 ] =
[ 25
-15 ]
 Given u = [
1
-2 ] and v= [ 2
-5 ]
find 4u, (-3)v, and 4u + (- 3)v .

S olution
:
4u = [ ]4
-8
(-3)v= [ ]
-6
15

4u+(-3)v= [ ] [=
4 -6 -2
-8
+ 15 7
 Consider a rectangular coordinate system in the plane. Because each point
in the plane is determined by an ordered pair of numbers, we can identify
gaeometric point (a, b) with the column vector
a
]So we may regard R²

[
b

as the set of all points in the plane.

The geometric visualization of a vector such as [

] 3
an arrow (directed
-1

line segment) from the origin (0,0) to the point (3,-1), . In this case, the
individual points along the arrow itself have no special significance.2 The
sum of two vectors has a useful geometric representation. The following
rule can be verified by analytic geometry.
 Parallelogram Rule x
2

for Addition

If u a n d v in R² are represented a s
points in the plane, then u + v
corresponds to the fourth vertex of
0 x1
the parallelogram whose other
vertices are u, 0, a n d v. The parallelogram side
 V ector n
i R^3
Vectors in R3 are 3 x 1 column matrices with three entries. They are
represented geo- metrically by points in a three-dimensional
coordinate space, with arrows from the ori-

gin sometimes included for visual clarity.

If n is a positive integer, R " (read "r-n") denotes the collection of all lists (or ordered n-tuples) of n real numbers,
usually written as n x 1 column matrices, such as

u=
[] u

u
.
12

n
The vector whose entries are all zero is called the zero vector and is d enoted by 0.
A lg eb ra ic Prop erties of
R n
Linear
C om bina tion
 1 2 7

[] [] []
Let a1= -2 , a2= 5 . and b= 4 Determine whether
-5 6 -3
b can be generated (or written) as a linear combination of aj and a. That is,
determine whether weights x and x exist such that
x1a1+ x 2 a2 = b
If vector equation (1) has a solution, find it.

Solution:
Use the definitions of scalar multiplication and vector addition to rewrite the vector equation

which is the same as

x1
[] [] []
1
-2
-5
+ x2
2
5
6
=
7
4
-3

[ ] [ ] []
x1 2x2 7
-2x1 + 5x2 = 4
-5x1 6x2 -3
and

[ ] []
x1
+ 2x2
-2x1 + 5x2
-5x1 + 6x2
=
7
4
-3

The vectors on the left and right sides of (2) are equal if and only if their corresponding entries are both equal. That
is, x and x make the vector equation (1) true if and only if x and x satisfy the system
 x1 + 2x2 =
=
-2x1 7+ 5x2 4= -3
-5x1 + 6x2
To solve this system, row reduce the augmented matrix of the system as follows:

[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
1 2 7 1 2 7 1 2 7 1 0 3
-2
-5
5
6
4
-3
~ 0
0
9
18
~ 0
0
1 2
16 32
~ 0
0
1
0
2
0
16 32
The solution of (3) is x = 3 and x = 2. Hence b is a linear combination of a, and a. with weights x=3

[] [] []
and xy=2. That is,
1 2 7
3 -2 +2 5 = 4
-5 6 -3
 Q. The figure identifies selected linear combinations of

v1 = [
] -1
1
and v2 =
[ ]
2
1

(Note that sets of parallel grid lines are drawn through

integer multiples of v1 and v2 .) E stimate the linear
combinations of v1 and v2 that generate the vectors u and
w.
Solution:
The parallelogram rule shows that u is the sum of 3v1 and -2v2; that is,
u = 3v1- 2v2
This expression for u can be interpreted as instructions for traveling from the
origin to u along two straight paths. First, travel 3 units in the v₁ direction to
3v₁, and then travel-2 units in the v₂ direction (parallel to the line through v2 and
0). Next, although the vector w is not on a grid line, w appears to be about
halfway between two pairs of grid lines, at the vertex of a parallelogram
determined by (5/2)v1 and (- 1/2)v2 . Thus a reasonable estimate for w is
w = 5/2 v1- 1/2v2
A Geom etric
Description of Span
{v} And Span {u,v} in
R 3
Let v be a nonzero vector in R³. Then Span {v} is the set of all
scalar multiples of v. which is the set of points on the line in R³
through v and 0.

If u and v are nonzero vectors in R³, with v not a multiple of u,

then Span (u, v) is the plane in R³ that contains u, v, and 0. In
particular, Span (u, v) contains the line in R³ through u and 0
and the line through v and 0.
1.David C Lay - Linear Algebra and its
applications - Addison Wesley

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