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This document is a Linear Algebra worksheet for Computer Science students at Debre Tabor University, containing various mathematical problems and exercises. It includes tasks such as demonstrating unit vectors, calculating norms, finding angles between vectors, and performing matrix decompositions. Additionally, it addresses concepts like eigenvalues, basis of subspaces, and positive definiteness of matrices.

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This document is a Linear Algebra worksheet for Computer Science students at Debre Tabor University, containing various mathematical problems and exercises. It includes tasks such as demonstrating unit vectors, calculating norms, finding angles between vectors, and performing matrix decompositions. Additionally, it addresses concepts like eigenvalues, basis of subspaces, and positive definiteness of matrices.

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Debre Tabor University

College of Natural and Computational Science

Department of Mathematics

Linear Algebra worksheet for Computer Science

√2 √3 √6
1. Show that 𝑖 + 𝑗 + 𝑘 is a unit vector.
2 3 6

2. Let 𝑣 = (2, −3, 1) and 𝑤 = (5, 0, −4), then find ‖2𝑣 − 3𝑤‖.
3. Let 𝑣 = (2, 1,2) and 𝑢 = (5, 0, 4), then find
a) 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑣𝑢 b) 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑢𝑣 c) ‖𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑣𝑢 ‖
4. Find the norm of the following vectors.
a) 𝑣 = 𝑖 − 3𝑗 + 4𝑘 b) 𝑣 = 8𝑖 + 6𝑘
5. Compute the area of a parallelogram having adjacent sides of vectors.
a) 𝑣 = 𝑖 − 3𝑗 + 4𝑘 , 𝑢 = 𝑖 − 3𝑗 + 2𝑘
6. Find the angle between the vector 𝑎 = 𝑖 − 2𝑗 + 2𝑘 and 𝑢 = −3𝑖 + 6𝑗 − 2𝑘.
7. Show that the following are basis of the space 𝑉 indicated.

a) {(−1, 1, 1), (1, −1, 1), (1, 1, −1)}, 𝑉 = ℝ3


b) {(1 + 𝑥, 𝑥 + 𝑥 2 , 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 3 , 𝑥 3 ); 𝑉 is set of polynomials of degree 3.
8. Find the characteristic equations, characteristic polynomial and eigen values of the
following matrices:

9. Find the basis and dimensions of a subspace 𝑤 = {(𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧): 𝑥 + 𝑦 − 𝑧 = 0} of


ℝ3 .
10. Show that if matrix A, B are similar, then so are 𝐴𝑇 and 𝐵 𝑇 .
11. Show that Similar matrices have the same eigenvalues.
12. For the following matrix determine an invertible matrix 𝑃, such that 𝑃 −1 𝐴𝑃 is
diagonal with the diagonal entries in increasing order of magnitude.

13. Let

a) Find the LU decomposition of A.


b) Find 𝐴−1 using the LU decomposition of A.
c) Use the LU decomposition of A to solve the system
3𝑥1 – 6𝑥2 − 3𝑥3 = −3
2𝑥 1 + 6𝑥3 = −22
−4𝑥1 + 7𝑥2 + 4𝑥3 = 3
14. Let

a) Show that the column vectors of A are linearly independent.


b) Find the QR decomposition of A.
15. Determine the following matrices are either positive definite or positive semi-
definite.

16. Find the Cholesky decomposition of the following matrices, if possible.


𝐼𝑛 Assignment ⋕ 𝑄10, 𝑄 11, 𝑄 12, 𝑄 13. 𝑏 individual
𝐺𝑟 Assignment 𝑄 13. 𝑐, 𝑄 14, 𝑄 15. 𝑐, 𝑄 16. 𝑏

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