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Finding Standard Matrix of Transformations

The document discusses how to find the standard matrix of a linear transformation T when given the images of vectors that do not form a standard basis. It explains that you take the matrix with the given vectors as columns and their images as rows, transpose it, and row reduce to get the standard matrix of T. An example is provided to illustrate this procedure.

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Finding Standard Matrix of Transformations

The document discusses how to find the standard matrix of a linear transformation T when given the images of vectors that do not form a standard basis. It explains that you take the matrix with the given vectors as columns and their images as rows, transpose it, and row reduce to get the standard matrix of T. An example is provided to illustrate this procedure.

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Finding the standard matrix of a linear transformation

GSI: Christopher Eur


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9/16/2016

Recall that given a linear transformation T : Rn → Rm , the standard matrix of T , which we


denote as MT , is a m × n matrix:
 
| ··· |
MT = T (~e1 ) · · · T (~en )
| ··· |

Question. What if we are given T ~v1 , . . . , T ~vn for (~v1 , . . . , ~vn ) not a standard basis?
   
| ··· | | ··· |
Answer. Do the following procedure: Let A := ~v1 · · · ~vn  and let B := T ~v1 · · · T ~vn .
| ··· | | ··· |
Row reduce the matrix [At : B t ] (note the transpose!!! ) to [In : M ]. Then M t is the matrix MT .

         
1 1 2 −1 2 −1
Example. Given T = and T = , we find that MT is as follows:
1 −1 5 2 −7/3 4/3
We first write:  
1 1 1 −1
2 5 −1 2
(again, note the transposing!). This row reduces to:
 
1 0 2 −7/3
0 1 −1 4/3
 
2 −1
And transposing the right matrix we get .
−7/3 4/3

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