UCB Math 110, Fall 2010: Final Exam

Prof. Persson, December 15, 2010

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Section: Circle your discussion section below:

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Time

Room

GSI

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Wed 8am - 9am

87 Evans

D. Penneys

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Wed 9am - 10am

2032 Valley LSB

C. Mitchell

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03

Wed 10am - 11am

B51 Hildebrand

D. Beraldo

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Wed 11am - 12pm

B51 Hildebrand

D. Beraldo

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Wed 12pm - 1pm

75 Evans

C. Mitchell

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Wed 2pm - 3pm

87 Evans

C. Mitchell

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Wed 9am - 10am

3113 Etcheverry

I. Ventura

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Wed 2pm - 3pm

3 Evans

D. Penneys

10

Wed 12pm - 1pm

310 Hearst

I. Ventura

Other/none, explain:

Instructions:
One double-sided sheet of notes, no books, no calculators.
Exam time 180 minutes, do all of the problems.
You must justify your answers for full credit.
Write your answers in the space below each problem.
If you need more space, use reverse side or scratch pages.
Indicate clearly where to find your answers.

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1. (8 problems, 3 points each) Find the answers to the following short calculations, giving very brief justifications (e.g. a formula or a few words).
a) Let A Mnn (C). Its only eigenvalues are 1,2,3,4,5, possibly with multiplicities. What is rank(A + I)?
Answer:

b) Let A M44 (C) be defined by

6 3 1

5 2
3
A=
0
0 1

0 0 1

2
4
3
5

Find the characteristic polynomial of A (you need not simplify).

Answer:

c) Let A be a 50-by-50 matrix where ALL of its entries are 1. Find tr(At A).
Answer:

d) Let A M44 (C) be defined by

1
2

0
A=
0

Find limn An .
Answer:

5 3 5

5
e
75

0 25

1
0 0 7

1. (contd)
e) Consider = {x2 1, x2 x, x2 + x} as a basis for V = P2 (R). Let
= {f1 , f2 , f3 }. Consider f V where f (p(x)) = p0 (3). Find c2 such
that f = c1 f1 + c2 f2 + c3 f3 .
Answer:

f ) Let V be a 4-dimensional vector space with basis = {v1 , v2 , v3 , v4 }. Let

T : V V be a linear transformation such that T(vi ) = vi+1 if 1 i 3
and T(v4 ) = v1 . Find [T] .
Answer:

g) Let

4
1
1

= 2 , 5 , 0

3
6
0

and be the standard basis of V = R3 . Find [IV ]

Answer:

h) Let T : V V be a self-adjoint operator on a finite-dimensional V, where

N(T) = W. Find R(T).
Answer:

2. (6 problems, 5 points each) Label the following statements as TRUE or FALSE,

giving a short explanation (e.g. a proof or a counterexample).
a) Let A Mnn (R) be an orthogonal matrix. Then det(A) = 1.

b) Let A, B Mnn (F ), and suppose there exists a nonzero v Fn such that

Av = Bv. Then det(A B) = 0.

c) Let T be a operator over a finite-dimensional inner product space V such

that T2 = IV . Then T cannot be self-adjoint.

2. (contd)
d) Let T be a linear operator on a finite-dimensional vector space, and suppose the characteristic polynomial of T splits. Then T is diagonalizable.

e) Let A, B Mnn (C) be two normal matrices with the same characteristic
polynomial. Then A and B are similar over the complex numbers.

f ) Let T be a normal operator on a finite-dimensional inner product space.

Then N(T) = N(T ).

3. Let V be a vector space over C, W be an inner product space over C with

inner product < , >, and T : V W be a linear transformation.
a) (8 points) Show that < u, v >0 =< T(u), T(v) > defines an inner product
on V if and only if T is one-to-one.

b) (8 points) Find an orthogonal basis for

< , >0 from above, if T = LA where

1 0

A = 0 1
0 1

V = R3 with the inner product

2 .
1

4. (10 points) Let v1 = (1, 1, 1, 1), v2 = (1, 0, 1, 2), v3 = (2, 0, 1, 1) be vectors

in R4 . Find a vector that is orthogonal to each vector v1 , v2 , v3 with the
standard inner product.

5. (10 points) Let W be a subspace of a vector space V. Consider the subset

of L(V, V) defined by S = {T L(V, V) : W is a T-invariant subspace of V}.
Prove that S is a subspace of L(V, V).

6. (10 points) Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space of dimension n, and m

be an integer such that m n. Prove that V has an m-dimensional T-invariant
subspace if and only if there exists an ordered basis for V such that
!
A B
[T] =
,
0 C
where A is an m m matrix.