Fall 2024

Math 3110 Linear Algebra for Engineers

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Homework 7

Due Wednesday October 16, in class
  • Section 4.2
    • Read Section 4.2.
    • Watch Lecture 15: Projections onto subspaces of the MIT OpenCourseWare series
    • Worked example (group work): 5*.
      • 5*. Follow the directions for Problem 5 in Problem Set 4.2, with \({\bf a}_1 = (2,-1,2)\) and \({\bf a}_2 = (-1,2,2)\).
    • Homework: 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17-19, 21, 20, 24
    • Hand In: 5**, 14*, 20*:
      • 5**. Follow the directions for Problem 5 in Problem Set 4.2, with \({\bf a}_1 = (1,-2,3)\) and \({\bf a}_2 = (-2,2,2)\).
      • 14*. Follow the directions for Problem 14 in Problem Set 4.2, but with the third column removed instead of the last column.
      • 20*. Follow the directions for Problem 20 in Problem Set 4.2, but with the plane \(2x+y-4z=0\).
  • Section 4.3
    • Read Section 4.3.
    • Watch Lecture 16: Projection matrices and least squares of the MIT OpenCourseWare series
    • Worked example (group work): 6*.
      • 6*. Follow the directions for Problem 6 in Problem Set 4.3, with \({\bf b} = (-1,1,4,4)\).
    • Homework: 1-3, 6, 7, 9, 17, 21, 22
    • Hand In: 6**, 22*:
      • 6**. Follow the directions for Problem 6 in Problem Set 4.3, with \({\bf b} = (-1,1,4,3,8)\) and \({\bf a} = (1,1,1,1,1)\).
      • 22*. Follow the directions for Problem 22 in Problem Set 4.3, with \(b = 5, 2, -2, -2, -3\) (that is, fit a line to the points \((t,b)=(-2,5),(-1,2),(0,-2),(1,-2),(2,-3)\)).