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This document provides examples to test whether certain sets of vectors or functions are subspaces. It contains 5 problems: 1) Determines whether certain sets of vectors in R3 are subspaces 2) Determines whether certain sets of 2x2 matrices are subspaces of M22 3) Determines whether certain sets of polynomials of degree 3 or less are subspaces of P3 4) Determines whether certain sets of real-valued functions are subspaces of the vector space V of all real-valued functions 5) Proves properties about the zero vector and scalar multiplication in a general vector space V

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This document provides examples to test whether certain sets of vectors or functions are subspaces. It contains 5 problems: 1) Determines whether certain sets of vectors in R3 are subspaces 2) Determines whether certain sets of 2x2 matrices are subspaces of M22 3) Determines whether certain sets of polynomials of degree 3 or less are subspaces of P3 4) Determines whether certain sets of real-valued functions are subspaces of the vector space V of all real-valued functions 5) Proves properties about the zero vector and scalar multiplication in a general vector space V

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2MH1 Linear Algebra


EXAMPLES 2: VECTOR SPACES AND SUBSPACES

1. Show that:
(a) The set of vectors of the form (a, 0, 0) is a subspace of R3 ;
(b) The set of vectors of the form (a, 1, 0) is not a subspace of R3 ;
(c) The set of vectors of the form (a, 3a, 2a) is a subspace of R3 ;
(d) The set of vectors {(x, y, z) ∈ R3 : 2x − 3y + z = 0} is a subspace of R3 ;
(e) {(x, y, z) | x2 + y2 + z2 ≤ 1} is not a subspace of R3 .
2. Determine which of the following are subspaces of M22 :
 
a b
(a) The set of matrices of the form where a, b, c and d are inte-
c d
gers;
(b) The set of 2 x 2 matrices such that A = At where t denotes matrix
transpose;
(c) The set of 2 x 2 matrices such that det(A) = 0.
3. Determine which of the following are subspaces of P3 , the space of all poly-
nomials of degree 3 or less:
(a) The set of polynomials a0 + a1 x + a2 x2 + a3 x3 for which a0 = 0;
(b) The set of polynomials a0 + a1 x + a2 x2 + a3 x3 for which a0 + a1 + a2 +
a3 = 0.
4. Determine which of the following are subspaces of V , the vector space of all
real valued functions defined on R:
(a) The family of all f ’s such that f (0) = 0;
(b) The family of all f ’s such that f (0) = 1;
(c) The family of all continuous functions f ;
(d) The family of all differentiable functions f .
5. Let (V, +, .) be a vector space. Let 0 denote the zero vector and let −u denote
the additive inverse of u. Prove that
(a) 0.u = 0 for all u ∈ V .
(b) α.(−u) = −(α.u) for all u ∈ V and α ∈ R.
(c) (−α).u = −(α.u) for all u ∈ V and α ∈ R.

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