Eigen Schmeigen
What's The Basis For Your Answer?
Transform This
Lost In Space
A Little a This and a Little a That
100

This, and only this, type of matrix has an eigenvalue of 0

What is singular or non-invertible?

100

A basis for Rn is the largest set of vectors in Rn that has this property.

What is:  the set is linearly independent?

100

Let B={b1, b2, b3} be a basis for R3.  The matrix
[b b2  b3] performs this function.

What is transforms a B-coordinate vector to standard coordinates?  That is:

x = PB[x]B where  PB =[b b2  b3] is the change-of-coordinates matrix from B to standard coordinates

100

These are the subspaces we typically associate with a matrix A

What are:
(1) the column space; Col A
(2) the null space; Nul A
(3) the row space; Row A

Bonus:  The eigenspace associated with eigenvalues of A

100

This common problem solving technique is NOT appropriate for finding eigenvalues

What is row reduction?

200

Eigenvalues for these matrices appear along the diagonal

What is a triangular matrix?
(Alternate answer:  What is a matrix in echelon form or in REF?)

200

A basis for Rn is the smallest set of vectors in Rn that has this property.

What is: the set spans Rn?

200

[b1 b2 ... bn | c1 c2 ... cn] ~ [In | THIS MATRIX]

What is the change-of-coordinates matrix from C to B, denoted by

P_(BlarrC)

?

200

These properties are required for V to be a subspace of H.

What is:

0) V must be in H

1) V must contain the zero vector

2) V must be closed under vector addition

3) V must be closed under multiplication by a scalar

200

Eigenvalues can be these kinds of numbers

What are real?  
(For now, we will look at complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors in Chapter 5.3.)

300

The only vector on the planet that cannot be an eigenvector.

What is the zero vector of any dimension?

300

The standard basis for Pn = {1, t, t2, ..., tn} is isomorphic to this vector space.

What is Rn+1?

300

Because change-of-coordinate matrices within Rn are made up of basis vectors, they have these key important properties (name as many as possible)

What is:
(1) The matrix is square (n-by-n)
(2) The matrix is invertible
(3) The columns span Rn
(4) The columns are linearly independent
(5) The determinant is non-zero
(5) The matrix has all non-zero eigenvalues
(6) ... All of the other properties in the IMT

300

The maximum and minimum dimension of the null space for a non-zero 4-by-6 matrix A.

What is 

2 <= dim "Nul" (A) <= 5?

Max of 4 pivots ==> min dim Nul A = 6 - 4 = 2
Min of 1 pivot ==> max dim Nul A = 6 - 1 = 5

300

This type of basis has vectors that are mutually orthogonal and of unit length - like e1, e2, ... en in Rn and

veci , vec j, and vec k

 in R3.

What is orthonormal?

400

The matrix

A - lambdaI 

 is this kind of matrix


What is singular or non-invertible?

400

B = {1 + t + t2, -1 + 2t2, 3 - t}
These are the basis vectors
b1, b2,and b3
such that: PB = [b1 b2 b3] and x = PB[x]B

{((1),(1),(1)), ((-1),(0),(2)),((3),(-1),(0))}

400

Let B={b1, b2, ... bn} and C={c1, c2, ... cn} be bases for Rn.  Under what conditions will [x]B = [x]?

1) What is x = 0 (the zero vector)?

2) The two bases are the same, that is, B = C

3) The change-of-coordinate matrices

P_(ClarrB) and P_(BlarrC) 

 have an eigenvalue of 1

400

A basis for the column space of A  

A = [[1,4,5,6],[2,4,6,8],[3,4,7,10], [4,4,8,12]] ~ [[1,0,1,2],[0,1,1,1],[0,0,0,0], [0,0,0,0]]

What is:  

{((1),(2),(3),(4)), ((4),(4),(4),(4))}

400

The set of Rvectors S = {v1, v2, v3, ..., vp} is linearly independent and let A = [vv2 ... vp ].

Therefore, we can conclude these facts about:

- S and its vectors

- the matrix A

- the linear transformation T(x) = Ax 

What is:
S:  
(1) p<=n
(2) S does not contain the zero vector
(3) None of the vectors can be constructed from a linear combination of any of the other vectors
A: 
(1) If n = p then then A is invertible
(2) Any echelon form of A will have a pivot in every column
(3) Ax=0 has only the trivial solution
T:
(1) The mapping x --> Ax is a one-to-one mapping from Rn to Rp

500

These are eigenvectors of the identity matrix I(i.e.the n-by-n identity matrix) 

 What is any non-zero vector in Rn?

However, to form a basis for the eigenspace, we would need to choose n linearly independent Rn vectors

500

Let V be a subspace of Rn with dim V = p.  A set of basis vectors for V will have these 4 key properties.

What is:
(1) they will all be elements of Rn
(2) there will be exactly p vectors in the set
(3) the set will be linearly independent
(4) the set will span V

500

The linear transformation T(x) = Ax maps all of R3 to a plane in R3.  The matrix A has this property.

What is singular (or non-invertible)?

Alternate Answers:
(1) Has a determinant of 0
(2) Has an eigenvalue of 0
(3) There are two pivot columns and one non-pivot column
(4) dim Col A = Rank A = 2; and dim Nul A = 1
(5) Any other property in the IMT is FALSE

500

A basis for the row space of A  

A = [[1,4,5,6],[2,4,6,8],[3,4,7,10], [4,4,8,12]] ~ [[1,0,1,2],[0,1,1,1],[0,0,0,0], [0,0,0,0]]

(1, 0, 1, 2),  (0, 1, 1, 1)

500

This equation relates the 5 numbers that are generally accepted to be the 5 most important numbers in all of mathematics:  

e^(ipi) + 1 = 0

What is Euler's Identity?
0:  The additive identity
1:  The multiplicative identity
pi:  The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
e:  Euler's number, the base of the natural logarithm

bb"i: " sqrt(-1)