Chapter 7: Q27E (page 345)
Consider a 2 × 2 matrix A. Suppose that tr A = 5 and det A = 6. Find the eigenvalues of A.
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The eigenvalues of A
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Chapter 7: Q27E (page 345)
Consider a 2 × 2 matrix A. Suppose that tr A = 5 and det A = 6. Find the eigenvalues of A.
The eigenvalues of A
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Show that similar matrices have the same eigenvalues. Hint: Ifis an eigenvector of, thenrole="math" localid="1659529994406" is an eigenvector of A.
25: Consider a positive transition matrix
meaning that a, b, c, and dare positive numbers such that a+ c= b+ d= 1. (The matrix in Exercise 24 has this form.) Verify that
and
are eigenvectors of A. What are the associated eigenvalues? Is the absolute value of these eigenvalues more or less than 1?
Sketch a phase portrait.
For a given eigenvalue, find a basis of the associated eigenspace. Use the geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues to determine whether a matrix is diagonalizable. For each of the matrices A in Exercises 1 through 20, find all (real) eigenvalues. Then find a basis of each eigenspace, and diagonalize A, if you can. Do not use technology
If a vector is an eigenvector of both Aand B, isnecessarily an eigenvector of A+B?
find an eigenbasis for the given matrice and diagonalize:
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