National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur

Course Name: Engineering Mathematics I Tutorial Sheet :01

Faculty : Dr. Neha Yadav Course Code : MA-111 Date of Issue : 29/08/2019
Date of Submission : 05/09/2019
Topics Covered: Matrices

1. Find the rank of the following matrices by converting it to Row Echelon form
1 2 3 0
3 1  2   2 4 3 2
(a)  6 2 4  (b)  
3 2 1 3
 3 1 2   
6 8 7 5
3  3 4

2. Use Gauss-Jordan method to compute the inverse of the matrix 2  3 4 
0  1 1 

 2  2 0 6
4 2 0 2 
3. Find the rank of the matrix,  by reducing it to normal form.
1 1 0 3 
 
1  2 1 2
4. Determine for what values of  and  the following equations have (i) no solution (ii) a
unique solution (iii) infinite number of solutions.
5. Find the values of k such that the system of equations
x  ky  3  0 , 4 x  3 y  kz  0 , 2 x  y  2 z  0 has nontrivial solution.
6. Find the non-singular matrices P and Q such that PAQ is the normal form of the matrix A
1  1  1
and hence find the inverse of A, if it exists. A  1 1 1  .
3 1 1 
7. In a given electrical network, the equations of the currents i1 ,i2 and i3 are
3i1  i2  i3  8 , 2i1  3i2  2i3  5 , 7i1  2i2  5i3  0 , Calculate i1 ,i3 by Cramer’s
rule.
8. Examine whether the following vectors are linearly dependent or independent, If
dependent find the relation if it exists
(a) X 1  (1, 2, 4) , X 2  (2,  1, 3) , X 3  (0, 1, 2) , X 4  (3, 7, 2)

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 (b) X 1  (2, 2, 1)T , X 2  (1, 3, 1)T , X 3  (1, 2, 2)T

 6 2 2 
9. Find the eigen values and eigen vectors for A   2 3 1 

 2 1 3 
10. Verify Cayley Hamilton theorem for the following symmetric matrix
 2 1 1 
A   1 2 1  , and hence obtain A 1 .
 1 1 2 
 1 2 2 
11. A square matrix A is defined by A   1 2 1  , Find the modal matrix P and the
  1 1 0 
resulting diagonal matrix D of A.
1 0 1 
12. Find a matrix P which transforms the matrix A   1 2 1  to diagonal form.
 2 2 3 
Hence find A 4 .
1 2 5 
13. Write down the quadratic form corresponding to the matrix A   2 0 3  .
 5 3 4 

14. Write down the matrix of the quadratic form x12  2 x22  7 x32  4 x1 x2  8x1 x3  5x2 x3 .
Determine the nature, index and signature for the same.
15. Reduce the quadratic form 6 x12  3x22  3x32  4 x1 x2  2 x2 x3  4 x3 x1 , to the sum of
squares and find the corresponding linear transformation. Also find the index and
signature.
 2 3  4i 
16. Show that A  
2 
is Hermitian. Find its eigen values and eigen vectors.
3  4i
1  1 1  i
17. Prove that the matrix A    is unitary.
3 1  i  1 