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Exercise 11.2.4

Avg difficulty 3.0

Consider R3\mathbb{R}^{3} as an inner product space with the usual dot product. For each of the following bases of R3\mathbb{R}^{3}, state whether it is orthonormal, orthogonal, or neither.

  1. {[100],[010],[001]}\left\{\left[\begin{array}{r}1\\ 0\\ 0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 1\\ 0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 0\\ 1\end{array}\right]\right\}.

  2. {[101],[011],[001]}\left\{\left[\begin{array}{r}1\\ 0\\ 1\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 1\\ 1\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 0\\ 1\end{array}\right]\right\}.

  3. {[102],[010],[−201]}\left\{\left[\begin{array}{r}1\\ 0\\ 2\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 1\\ 0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}-2\\ 0\\ 1\end{array}\right]\right\}.

  4. {[35450],[00−1],[45−350]}\left\{\left[\begin{array}{r}\frac{3}{5}\\ \frac{4}{5}\\ 0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}0\\ 0\\ -1\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{r}\frac{4}{5}\\ -\frac{3}{5}\\ 0\end{array}\right]\right\}.

Selinger, Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra, Inner product spaces, Orthogonality, Exercise 11.2.4

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