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Course: ELL 701 - Mathematical

Methods in Control
Instructor: M. Nabi

Problem Set-2 on Linear Algebra

 
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1. Find the eigen values of matrix A = .
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(a) Verify that detA = 1 2 .


(b) Calculate Singular value decomposition of A. (Hint: Compute
eigen values of AT A)
(c) If a unit ball is considered in R2 and A maps the unit ball in R2 ,
what will be the area of that ellipsoid ? (Hint: Area of ellipsoid
ab)
 
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2. Calculate singular values of A =
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(a) Relate 2- norm and Frobenius norm with SVD of A.


 
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3. Calculate the eigen values and eigen vectors of A = .
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4. If a matrix A is symmetric and positive definite, show from the eigen
values that A2 and A1 also hold same properties.

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5. An eigen value of A = 2 1 6 is 2.
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(a) Find a basis for the corresponding eigen space.


(b) Prove that T raceA= sum of eigen values and detA= multiplica-
tion of eigen values.

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6. If A is an n n matrix and is an eigen value of A, then what will
be eigen values for 2A, A5 ?
 
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7. Find the characteristic equation for A = , is it solvable in R2
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?

8. Diagonalize or obtain Jordon form



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A = 2 1 6
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9. Suppose A be a 4 4 matrix with eigen values 5, 3, and 2. Suppose


you know that the eigenspace for = 3 is two dimentional. Do you
have enough information to determine if A is diagonalizable ?

10. Suppose a particle is moving in a planer force field and its position
vector x satisfies X = Ax and X(0) = x0 where,
   
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A= , x0 =
2 1 2.6

Solve the problem for t 0.


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2x21 + 7x22 + 4x23 + 4x1 x2 + 16x1 x3 + 20x2 x3 ,

11. Find symmetric A for f (x) = 9
is it positive definite?

12. Determine from the properties that following matrices are positive
definite, positive semidefinite, negetive definite, negetive semidefinite
or indefinite .

4 1 6   2 0 2 2 1 1 2 1 0
1 1
(a) 2 1 6, , 0 4 4, 1 2 1, 1 2 0 .
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2 1 8 2 4 6 1 1 2 0 0 2
13. Take up any symmetric and square A and evaluate singular value de-
composition. From SVD calculate A1 .

14. Is the below system solvable? If it is then how many solutions exist?
If not, state the reason?

x + y + 2z = 3
x+y+z =1
2x + 2y + 2z = 5

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15. On what conditions b1 , b2 , b3 , b4 make each system solvable? Find x in
that case.

1 2   b1
2 4 x1 b2
2 5 x2 = b3

3 9 b4

16. Write complete solution particular plus any multiple of the null space
basis

x + 3y + 3z = 1
2x + 6y + 9z = 5
x 3y + 3z = 5

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