2023 Fall Semester Sample Exam problem for Midterm

<A type>
1. Obtain the components of the vectors in   below where  is the magnitude and 
the angle made with the positive direction of the  axis (    ≤  ).
(a)        ,

(b)       .

2. Consider the vectors u        , and v        .

(a) Compute  u   v .

(b) Find the dot product u ⋅ v .

(c ) Find the angle between u and v .

     

 
3. Find the projection of   onto the vector   .
     

4. Consider the points                   and       .

(a) Find  × 

(b) Find an equation of the plane that contains     and  .

(c ) Find the area of the triangle determined by the points     and  .

5. Find an equation of the plane containing       and the line

              .

6. Give an example of nonzero  ×  matrices A and B such that AB  .

7. Find the determinant and inverse of    .

8. Using determinants, show that the vectors i j , i j and i k are linearly
independent.

9. Consider
            

   
           
A , B , C .
           
           
(a) Find detA , detB , and detC for any value of .

(b) Find rank A  rank B, and rank C

<B type>
1. Let u , v , w ∈   and be three non-coplanar vectors(non-coplanar: 한 평면에 있지
않음). For any vector x ∈ R  , there is a unique way to write x  u  v  w for some
real numbers   . Find expressions for    in terms of u , v , w .
(Hint : Take dot product with v × w .)

2. Find the acute angle(예각) between the line r               and the

line of intersection of the planes        and     .

3. This question is about the matrix

    


A      .
    
(a) Find the reduced row echelon form. How many independent rows in A ?

(b) If B is the sum of the four columns of A , solve the system A X  B .

4. The solution of the system A X  B is

     

   
X      
     
where  and  are parameters. If we use the Gaussian elimination to solve the
augmented matrix A B  , find the reduced matrix of A .

5. Suppose  is a unit vector in   , so       This problem is about the  × 

symmetric matrix H  I    .
(a) Show directly that H   I .

(b) One eigenvector or H is  itself. Find the corresponding eigenvalue.