Calculus 3 : Calculus 3

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Example Questions

Example Question #636 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 3x3 matrix can be found via a means of reduction into three 2x2 matrices as follows:

These can then be further reduced via the method of finding the determinant of a 2x2 matrix:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #637 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 3x3 matrix can be found via a means of reduction into three 2x2 matrices as follows:

These can then be further reduced via the method of finding the determinant of a 2x2 matrix:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #641 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #642 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #643 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

This result is due to the columns being linearly dependent, i.e. multiples of each other. The first column is three times the second column.

Example Question #644 : Vectors And Vector Operations

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #51 : Matrices

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #51 : Matrices

Find the determinant of the matrix 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The determinant of a 2x2 matrix can be found by cross multiplying terms as follows:

For the matrix 

The determinant is thus:

Example Question #53 : Matrices

Find the matrix product of , where  and  .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

In order to multiply two matrices, , the respective dimensions of each must be of the form  and  to create an  (notation is rows x columns) matrix. Unlike the multiplication of individual values, the order of the matrices does matter.

For a multiplication of the form

The resulting matrix is

The notation may be daunting but numerical examples may elucidate.

We're told that  and  

The resulting matrix product is then:

Example Question #54 : Matrices

Find the matrix product of , where  and  .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

In order to multiply two matrices, , the respective dimensions of each must be of the form  and  to create an  (notation is rows x columns) matrix. Unlike the multiplication of individual values, the order of the matrices does matter.

For a multiplication of the form

The resulting matrix is

The notation may be daunting but numerical examples may elucidate.

We're told that  and 

The resulting matrix product is then:

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