SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

MATH 3171- LINEAR ALGEBRA AND MULTIVARIATE CALCULUS FOR ENGINEERS
SPRING 2015 (APRIL 05, 2015)
MIDTERM EXAM I
TIME ALLOWED: 70 Min. TOTAL MARKS: 40
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS AND SHOW ALL YOUR WORK

2 3 2 3
2 1 2 7 2 4
Problem 1. (6 marks) Let A = 4 3 1 4 5 4
;B= 6 7 8 5:
6 8 3 8 3 6

(a) Evaluate the determinant of the matrix (2A B)T :

(b) Is the matrix (2A B)3 singular? Justify your answer.
(c) Find the rank of (2A B)3 :

Problem 2. 0 1
(9 marks) Let A = .
3 2

(a) Find the eigenvalues of A.

(b) Find the corresponding eigenvectors of A.
(c) Diagonalize A:

Problem 3. (5 marks) Solve the following system

8
< x 2y + 4z = 5
y 3z = 5
:
x y + z = 10
2 3
1 1 1
Problem 4. (8 marks) Let A = 4 1 1 0 5:
0 1 1

(a) Find A 1 by the method of cofactors.

1 1 1 T ).
(b) Use the answer of part (a) to …nd AT (Hint: use AT = A
(c) Are the column vectors of the matrix A linearly independent? Justify your answer.

PLEASE TURN OVER FOR THE REMAINING QUESTIONS

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3 1
Problem 5. (6 marks) Let A = 2 i 2p ,X=
1 i
,Y =
1+i
:
1 3 i 1 2i
2i 2

(a) Is A Hermitian? Skew-Hermitian? Unitary?

(b) Evaluate (AX) : (AY ).

Problem 6. (6 marks)

(a) Prove that if A is an orthogonal matrix, then jdet Aj = 1:

(b) Let A be an orthogonal n n matrix, B an n n matrix such that det B = 4, and let
C = AT B 2 A: Prove that
det C = 16:

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