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MANE 3351

Lecture 20

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Agenda

  • Summary of operations on Vectors, Matrix Multiplication, Three-Dimensional Transformations
  • Determinants
  • Introduction to Inverse Matrix
  • Lab Assignment 9 today

Resources

Handouts

Calendar

Date Lecture Topic Lab Topic
11/11 Lecture 20 - Determinant Lab 9
11/13
11/18
11/20
11/25
11/27
12/2
12/4
12/9 Final exam 1:15 - 3:00 pm

Lecture 20 Overview

  • Vector Operations,
  • Determinants, and
  • Matrix Inversion

Vectors

A vector \(\mathbf{x}\in{\Bbb R}^n\)

\[ \mathbf{x}=\begin{bmatrix}x_1\\x_2\\ \vdots \\ x_n \end{bmatrix} \]

can be thought of as a one-dimensional array of numbers and is written as

  • \(\mathbf{x}\) is often called a column vector
  • the dimension of \(\mathbf{x}\) is \((n\times 1)\)

A row vector can be written as

\[ \mathbf{y}=\begin{bmatrix}y_1\;y_2\;\cdots\;y_m\end{bmatrix} \]
  • the dimension of \(\mathbf{y}\) is \((1\times m)\)

Scalar Product

\[ \alpha\mathbf{x}=\begin{bmatrix}\alpha x_1\\ \alpha_2 x_2 \\ \vdots \\ \alpha x_n\end{bmatrix} \]

for \(\alpha\) (a constant or scalar)


Addition/Subtraction

\[ \mathbf{x}\pm\mathbf{y}=\begin{bmatrix}x_1\pm y_1\\ x_2\pm y_2\\ \vdots \\ x_n\pm y_n\end{bmatrix} \]
  • Note that the dimensions of \(\mathbf{x}\) and \(\mathbf{y}\) must be identical

Matrices

A matrix is a two-dimensional array of numbers written as

\[ \mathbf{A}=\begin{bmatrix}a_{11}&a_{12}&\cdots&a_{1m}\\a_{21}&a_{22}&\cdots&a_{2m}\\ \vdots&\vdots&\ddots&\vdots\\a_{n1}&a_{n2}&\cdots&a_{nm}\end{bmatrix} \]
  • A matrix has two dimensions and can be written as \(A_{n\times m}\) where \(n\) is the number of rows and \(m\) is the number of columns
  • A column vector can be considered an \(n\times 1\) matrix and a row vector can be considered an \(1\times m\) matrix
  • Matrices may or may not be square

Determinant


Ex: Determinant of a 2x2 Full Rank Matrix


EX: Determinant of a 2x2 Non-Full Rank Matrix


Ex: Shortcut for Determinant of a 3x3 Matrix


Ex: Method of Minors for finding determinant of 3x3 or higher dimension Matrix


Inverse Matrix

Inverse Matrices Video


Linear Algebra Handout