GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Due Date: Wednesday, 2 May 2012

1. Let W be the space spanned by f = sin x and g = cos x.
a. Show that for any values of u, f
1
=sin(x+u ) and g
1
=cos(x+u ) are in W
b. Show that f
1
and g
1
form a basis for W.

2. Find the basis and dimension of the solution space of
0 5 6
0 3 4
0 2 2 3
0
= + +
= +
= +
= + +
z y x
z y x
z y x
z y x


3. Find the orthonormal basis for Euclidean inner product space spanned by (0, 1, 2),
(1, 0, 1) and (1, 1, 3).
4. a). Find x so that the basis {x, x } and |
.
|

\
|
2
1
,
2
1
is an orthonormal basis
in R
2
.
b). Let B be the orthonormal basis obtained in a) and S is the standard basis for
R
2
. If [v]
S
=
(

2
1
and [w]
S
=
(

1
1
, then find [v]
B
and [w]
B
.
5. Given that V is an inner product space, and that u and v are orthonormal vectors
in V, show that ||u v|| = 2
6. Find the basis and dimension of:
a. The plane 0 5 2 3 = + z y x .
b. The plane x + 2y = 0. Is (2, -4, 5) in the plane?
7. Given that
|
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
7 0 0
6 5 0
4 3 2
A .
a. Find the QR decomposition of A.
b. Using the result in a) find A
1
. (Hint: Q is an orthogonal matrix)

8. Given u
1
= (1, 0, 1), u
2
= (0, 1, 2), u
3
= (2, 1, 0)
a. Apply the Gram-Schmidt process to transform the basis {u
1
, u
2
, u
3
}to an
orthonormal basis.
b. If
(
(
(

=
0 2 1
1 1 0
2 0 1
A , find the QR decomposition of A
9. Find the QR decomposition of A =
(
(
(

1 3 0
1 1 1
1 2 1
.
10. Let B = {u
1
, u
2
, u
3
} and B = {v
1
, v
2
, v
3
} be the bases for a vector space V , and
(
(
(

=
2 1 0
4 1 1
3 1 2
P is a transition matrix from B to B.
a. Write v
1
, v
2
, v
3
as linear combinations of u
1
, u
2
, u
3

b. Write u
1
, u
2
, u
3
as linear combination of v
1
, v
2
, v
3

11. Given the basis B = {u
1
, u
2
} and B = {v
1
, v
2
}, where
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
3
6
1
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
2
10
2
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
3
0
1
v and
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
2
3
2
v .
a. Find the transition matrix from B to B , and also from B to B.
b. Find the coordinate matrix
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
1
4
w with respect to basis B , and also B.
12. Given the basis B = {u
1
, u
2
, u
3
} and B = {v
1
, v
2
, v
3
}, where
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
3
0
3
1
u ,
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
1
2
3
2
u ,
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
1
6
1
3
u
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
0
6
6
1
v ,
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
4
6
2
2
v ,
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
7
3
2
3
v .
a. Find the transition matrix from B to B
b. Find the coordinate matrix [w]
B
where
|
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
5
8
5
w , and also find [w]
B

13. {v
1
, v
2
, v
3
} is an orthonormal basis for V and we V. Proof that ||w||
2
= (w, v
1
)
2
+
(w, v
2
)
2
+ + (w, v
n
)
2
.

14. Let p = p(x) and q = q(x) be the polynomials in P
2
. Show that
(p, q) = p(0)q(0) + p()q() + p(1)q(1) is an inner product.
15. Show that the vectors : v
1
= (1, 2, 3, 4), v
2
= (2, 1, 4, 3), v
3
= (3, 4, 1, 2),
v
4
= (4, 3, 2, 1) form an orthogonal basis for R
4
with the Euclidean inner product.
Write u = (1, 2, 3, 7) as a linear combination of the basis.
16. Given that B and B are bases for R
2,
where B = {u
1
,u
2
}, B = {v
1
, v
2
},
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
1
3
1
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
3
1
2
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
1
1
1
v ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
1
2
2
v .
a. If [w]
B
=
|
|
.
|

\
|
2
2
, then [w]
B
=
b. If [w]
B
=
|
|
.
|

\
|
4
1
, then [w]
B
=
17. Given that V is a vector space with bases: B = {u
1
, u
2
} and B = {v
1
, v
2
}, where
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
3
6
1
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
2
10
2
u ,
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
0
2
1
v and
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
2
3
2
v .
a. Determine the transition matrix from B to B
b. Find the coordinate matrix [p]
B
if
|
|
.
|

\
|
=
1
4
p .
c. Using the result of a. and b., find the coordinate matrix [p]
B