Chapter 5: Q5.3-27E (page 267)
Question: Show that if A is diagonalizable and invertible, then so is \({A^{ - {\bf{1}}}}\).
Short Answer
Since \({D^{ - 1}}\) is a diagonal matrix, therefore the matrix \({A^{ - 1}}\) also a diagonal matrix.
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Chapter 5: Q5.3-27E (page 267)
Question: Show that if A is diagonalizable and invertible, then so is \({A^{ - {\bf{1}}}}\).
Since \({D^{ - 1}}\) is a diagonal matrix, therefore the matrix \({A^{ - 1}}\) also a diagonal matrix.
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Question: Find the characteristic polynomial and the eigenvalues of the matrices in Exercises 1-8.
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For the Matrices A find real closed formulas for the trajectory where
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Question: Exercises 9-14 require techniques section 3.1. Find the characteristic polynomial of each matrix, using either a cofactor expansion or the special formula for \(3 \times 3\) determinants described prior to Exercise 15-18 in Section 3.1. [Note: Finding the characteristic polynomial of a \(3 \times 3\) matrix is not easy to do with just row operations, because the variable \(\lambda \) is involved.
14. \(\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}5&- 2&3\\0&1&0\\6&7&- 2\end{array}} \right]\)
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