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The document is the final examination for MA 106 during Spring 2014. It contains 5 questions, each with 2 parts worth 4 marks each. Students are instructed to show their work and justify their answers. They are not allowed to use electronic devices during the exam. The exam covers topics such as matrix rank calculation, linear transformations, orthonormal bases, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors.

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Final

The document is the final examination for MA 106 during Spring 2014. It contains 5 questions, each with 2 parts worth 4 marks each. Students are instructed to show their work and justify their answers. They are not allowed to use electronic devices during the exam. The exam covers topics such as matrix rank calculation, linear transformations, orthonormal bases, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors.

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MA 106: Spring 2014

Final Examination: 18 February 2014, 2.00 P.M.–4.00 P.M.

1. Write down your Roll Number, Division and Tutorial Batch on your answerscript. Failure
to do so will invite a penalty of 2 marks.

2. Attempt all questions. Each question has two parts: (a) and (b), and each part carries 4
marks. Answers to both parts of a question must be written together.

3. Fill in the index of ‘Question number and Starting Page’. Failure to do so will invite a
penalty of 2 marks.

4. Justify all your answers. Answers without justification will not carry any marks.

5. All results stated in the Lectures Notes and/or presented in the class can be assumed.

6. No tablet PCs or mobile phones are allowed in the examination rooms.


 
1 0 1 1 −2
 0 1 2 −1 3 
1 (a) Using Gauss elimination, find the rank of the matrix A = 
 2
,
2 s 0 2 
2 −3 −4 5 −13
depending on s ∈ R.

(b) Let A be an n×(n + 2) matrix. Is there a nonzero x = [x1 , . . . , xn+2 ]t in R(n+2)×1 such
n+2
X
that Ax = 0 and xj = 0?
j=1

2 (a) Define a linear transformation T : R4×1 → R4×1 by

T ([x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ]t ) = [x1 − x2 , x2 − x3 , x3 − x4 , x4 − x1 ]t .

Let E = (e1 , e2 , e3 , e4 ) denote the standard ordered basis of R4×1 . Find the matrix
MEE (T ) of T w.r.t. the ordered basis E of R4×1 . Consider the ordered bases

F = (e1 + e2 , e2 + e3 , e3 + e4 , e4 ) and G = (e1 , e1 + e2 , e1 + e2 + e3 , e1 + e2 + e3 + e4 )

of R4×1 . Find invertible matrices P and Q such that the matrix MGF (T ) of T w.r.t.
the ordered bases F and G of R4×1 is equal to Q−1 MEE (T )P .

(b) For t ∈ R, and x = [x1 , x2 ]t , y = [y1 , y2 ]t in R2×1 , let

f (x, y) = x1 y1 − 3x1 y2 − 3x2 y1 + t x2 y2 .

Find all t ∈ R for which f defines an inner product on R2×1 .

1
3 (a) Applying the Gram-Schmidt process to the basis

e1 + e2 + e3 , −e1 + e2 , −e1 + e3

of R3×1 (in the given order), obtain an orthonormal basis of R3×1 .

(b) Let V = P3 [−1, 1] be the inner product space of all real-valued polynomial functions
of degree less than or equal to 3, and consider the inner product on V given by
Z 1
hf, gi = f (t)g(t) dt for f, g ∈ V.
−1

For j = 0, 1, 2, 3, define fj (t) = t j , t ∈ [−1, 1]. Let W denote the subspace of V


consisting of polynomials of degree less than or equal to 2. Suppose {a0 f0 , a1 f1 , a2 f2 +
a3 f0 } is an orthonormal basis of W , where a0 , a1 , a2 , a3 ∈ R. Find the orthogonal
projection g of f3 on W , that is, find the best approximation g of f3 from W . Also,
find the square of the distance of f3 from g.

4 (a) Let B be a complex n × n matrix that is self-adjoint as well as unitary. If trace B = 0,


find all distinct eigenvalues of B.
 
1 3 9
(b) Let C =  0 2 3  . Find algebraic and geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues of
0 0 1
C. Are there an invertible matrix P and a diagonal matrix D such that P −1 CP = D?
If so, find them.

5 (a) Let N be a complex 3×3 upper triangular matrix that satisfies N 3 −6N 2 +11N −6I = 0
and 5 ≤ det N ≤ 7. Is N diagonalizable? Why?

(b) Find
 an orthonormal
 basis of R4×1 consisting of eigenvectors of the matrix M =
0 0 1 1
 0 0 1 1 
  . Find M 5 x if x = [3, 2, 1, 0]t .
 1 1 0 0 
1 1 0 0

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