Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay

ME 673: Mathematical Methods in Engineering, Spring 2016

Assignment 1: Linear Algebra - I
Note: Matrices will be denoted using boldface capital letters (such as A) and vectors will be
denoted by boldface lowercase letters (such as r).
1. Show that AT A and AAT are symmetric.
2. Show that (A + B)T = AT + BT .
3. Solve the system
2x1 + x2 x3 + x4 = 2
x1 x2 x3 + x4 = 1
x1 4x2 2x3 + 2x4 = 6
4x1 + x2 3x3 + 3x4 = 1
4. Solve the system
x1 2x2 + 3x3 x4 = 0
x1 + 2x3 + x4 = 0
2x1 + x2 2x4 = 0
5. Solve the system
x1 2x2 + x3 x4 + 2x5 = 7
x2 + x3 + 2x4 x5 = 5
x1 x2 + 2x3 + 2x4 + 2x5 = 1
6. Solve the linear system represented using an augmented matrix as follows:

8
2
6

16

5 21

7. Determine the rank of the following matrix:

5 2

2 0

1
4

4 11 2

8. Determine the values of x that satisfy the determinantal equation















x 1 1 1 

1 x 0 0 

=0

1 0 x 0 
1 0 0

9. Determine the inverse of the following matrix by two different methods:

5 1

1 2

2 1 0

10. If A is a diagonal matrix with entires a11 , a22 , . . . , ann , show that the inverse of A is a
1
1
diagonal matrix with entires a1
11 , a22 , . . . , ann .