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Properties of linear transformations

Composing rotations and reflections of the plane and of R^3 by multiplying their matrices, keeping track of which transformation applies first.

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10 exercises

Exercise 6.4.2

Find the matrix for the linear transformation that rotates every vector in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} by an angle of 2π/32\pi/3 and then reflects about the xx-axis.

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Exercise 6.4.3

Find the matrix for the linear transformation that rotates every vector in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} by a counterclockwise angle of π/6\pi/6 and then reflects about the xx-axis followed by a reflection about the yy-axis.

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Exercise 6.4.4

Find the matrix for the linear transformation that reflects every vector in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} about the xx-axis and then rotates by an angle of π/4\pi/4.

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Exercise 6.4.5

Find the matrix of the linear transformation that rotates every vector in R3\mathbb{R}^{3} counterclockwise about the zz-axis when viewed from the positive zz-axis by an angle of 30 degrees and then reflects about the xyxy-plane.

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Exercise 6.4.6

Prove the three properties in Proposition 6.27, using only the definition of a linear transformation (i.e., the fact that it preserves addition and scalar multiplication).

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Exercise 6.4.7

Let TT be the linear transformation with matrix A=[31−12]A=\left[\begin{array}{rr}3&1\\ -1&2\end{array}\right] and SS the linear transformation with matrix B=[0−242]B=\left[\begin{array}{rr}0&-2\\ 4&2\end{array}\right]. Find the matrix of S∘TS\circ T. Compute (S∘T)(v)(S\circ T)(\mathbf{v}) for v=[2−1]\mathbf{v}=\left[\begin{array}{r}2\\ -1\end{array}\right].

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Exercise 6.4.8

Let TT be a linear transformation and suppose T([1−4])=[2−3]T\left(\left[\begin{array}{r}1\\ -4\end{array}\right]\right)=\left[\begin{array}{r}2\\ -3\end{array}\right]. Suppose SS is the linear transformation with matrix B=[12−13]B=\left[\begin{array}{rr}1&2\\ -1&3\end{array}\right]. Find (S∘T)(v)(S\circ T)(\mathbf{v}) for v=[1−4]\mathbf{v}=\left[\begin{array}{r}1\\ -4\end{array}\right].

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Exercise 6.4.9

What is the inverse of a reflection? Rotation? Shearing? Scaling?

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Exercise 6.4.10

Let TT be a linear transformation with matrix A=[2152]A=\left[\begin{array}{rr}2&1\\ 5&2\end{array}\right]. Find the matrix of T−1T^{-1}.

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Exercise 6.4.11

Let TT be the linear transformation given by T([xy])=[4x−3y2x−2y]T\left(\left[\begin{array}{c}x\\ y\end{array}\right]\right)=\left[\begin{array}{c}4x-3y\\ 2x-2y\end{array}\right]. Find the matrix of T−1T^{-1}.

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