Fall2011HW5

Username: rich-circled
Total: 90 possible marks
Posted: 2011-10-10 21:25
Due: 2011-10-21 23:59
1. (10 marks) Find the cos() where is the accute angle between the line l
1
through A(0, 2, 3)
and B(4, 0, 1) and the line l
2
through A and C(7, 2, 3).
cos() =
2. (10 marks) Given vectors a = (9, 5, 9) and b = 8j 8k.
(a) Find 2a + 9b.
(b) Find the unit vector u in the direction of 2a + 9b.
2a + 9b =
u =
3. (10 marks) Let
D =
_
_
_
_
5 0 0 0
0 4 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 3
_
_
_
_
P =
_
_
_
_
3 0 4 10
4 1 0 13
2 0 3 8
4 0 6 15
_
_
_
_
then
A = P
1
DP =
_
_
_
_
69 0 96 240
156 4 228 635
68 0 97 240
8 0 12 29
_
_
_
_
(a) Find the characteristic function of D.
(b) Find the eigenvalues of D.
(c) Find the characteristic function of A. (Consider det(A tI) = det(P
1
(D tI)P) =
1
det(P) det(D tI) det(P
1
).)
(d) Find the eigenvalues of A.
det(tI D) =
Write your answer as a set {
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
}
det(tI A) =
As in (b) write your answer as a set.
4. (10 marks) Let
A =
_
a b
b a
_
(a) What is the characteristic polynomial of A, that is, what is det(tI A)?
(b) If b > 0 what are the eigenvalues of A? Write your answer as a vector (
1
,
2
) where
1
<
2
.
(c) If b > 0, for each eigenvalue
i
of A nd an eigenvector u
i
so that the rst coordinate is 1.
(Write your answers as column vectors.)
(d) For any vector(s, t) there are l, k so that (s, t) = lu
1
+ ku
2
, solve for l and k as functions of
s and t. (Consider P = [u
1
|u
2
], then P
_
l
k

=
_
s
t

, so
_
l
k

= P
1
_
s
t

.)
Write your answer as p(t) = 0 where p(t) = det(tI A).
(
1
,
2
) = (where
1
<
2
)
u
1
=
u
2
=
l =
k =
5. (10 marks) The matrix
A =
_
_
6 0 5
1 1 1
10 0 9
_
_
2
has three distinct eigenvalues
1
<
2
<
3
. Let v
i
be the unique eigenvector associated to
i
with a 1 as its rst non-zero component. Let
D =
_
_

1
0 0
0
2
0
0 0
3
_
_
and P = [v
1
|v
2
|v
3
]
so that the i
th
column of P is the eigenvector v
i
associated to
i
.
(a) Find D.
(b) Find P.
(c) Find P
1
.
(d) Verify that A = PDP
1
(not graded)
P =
D =
P
1
=
6. (10 marks) (1) Let u be the vector in R
2
with magnitude 5 and angle /3, measured in radians
from the
positive x-axis. Write u in coordinate form.
(2) Find proj
b
(u) where b = (4, 6).
u =
proj
b
(u) =
7. (10 marks) Given that proj
v
(u) = (3, 8, 7) and proj
v
(w) = (15, 40, 35) compute proj
v
(9u
3w).
proj
v
(9u 3w) =
8. (10 marks) Let be the plane containing the line, l : (x, y, z) = t(5, 2, 4) + (3, 4, 1) and
3
the point Q(8, 4, 6). Let P be the point (1, 4, 7).
(1) Find the projection of

QP onto . (This is asking for a vector.)
(2) Find the distance between P and l, dist(P, l).
(3) Find the distance between P and , dist(P, )
proj

QP) =
dist(P, l) =
dist(P, ) =
9. (10 marks) Plane
1
contains the points A(3, 2, 2), B (6, 0, 5), and C (10, 7, 7) and plane
2
is given in standard form by 17x 39y 9z = 233.
(1) Find cos() where is the acute angle between the planes.
(2) Find the direction, u (unit vector), for the line of intersection of the two planes, l =
1

2
.
(Choose u so that its rst coordinate is positive, this will make the answer unique.)
cos() =
u =
4