Inner product and projections
Dot products, orthogonality and length, projection onto a subspace, orthonormal bases via Gram-Schmidt, and least-squares fits to overdetermined systems.
Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers, Inner product and projections
7 exercises
Exercise 101
Find the that makes the following vectors orthogonal: , .
Exercise 102
Find the angle between , .
Exercise 103
Given that , , and , compute
Exercise 104
Suppose . Find
Exercise 105
The vectors , , form an orthogonal basis. Represent the following vectors in terms of this basis:
Exercise 106
Let be the subspace spanned by , . Find an orthogonal basis of by the Gram--Schmidt process.
Exercise 107
Starting with , , , follow the Gram--Schmidt process to find an orthogonal basis of .
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