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MIT 18.06 习题集 3
列空间与零空间、矩阵的秩以及方程组解的判定。
1. MIT 18.06 Problem Set 3 — how this assessment works
This lesson reproduces the Problem Set “MIT 18.06 Problem Set 3” from MIT OpenCourseWare 18.06 Linear Algebra (Spring 2010) (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Work through 14 problems in order: type your reasoning in the answer box or write it on the handwriting pad, then submit for AI grading.
How the grading works Every problem is graded by an AI mathematics teacher that reads the official solution shipped with the course. It checks your work criterion by criterion, awards partial credit for correct steps, and returns written feedback. Equivalent mathematics and valid alternative methods are accepted — a different route to the same result can still earn full marks.
If your answer is incomplete, the feedback names exactly which steps are missing, so you can correct them and try again.
2. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 1 — Parameterizing the plane $x - 3y - z = 12$ (4 pts)
The plane is parallel to the plane in Problem 17. One particular point on this plane is . All points on the plane have the form (fill in the first components)
3. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 2 — A matrix with prescribed column space and nullspace (4 pts)
(If possible...) Construct a matrix whose column space contains and and whose nullspace contains and .
4. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 3 — Nullspace of $C = \begin{bmatrix} A \\ B \end{bmatrix}$ (12 pts)
How is the nullspace related to the spaces and , if ?
5. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 4 — Kirchhoff's Law: node equations and special solutions (12 pts)
Kirchhoff's Law says that \emph{current in=current out} at every node. This network has six currents (the arrows show the positive direction, each could be positive or negative). Find the four equations for Kirchhoff's Law at the four nodes. Find three special solutions in the nullspace of .
6. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 5 — $AB = I$ implies $A$ is invertible (4 pts)
Suppose and are by matrices, and . Prove from that the rank of is . So is invertible and must be its two-sided inverse (Section 2.5). Therefore (which is not so obvious!).
7. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 6 — Factor $A$ as (pivot columns)($R$'s first $r$ rows) (4 pts)
\emph{Neat fact} \textbf{Every} \textbf{by} \textbf{matrix of rank} \textbf{reduces to (} \textbf{by} \textbf{) times (} \textbf{by} \textbf{):}
Write the 3 by 4 matrix in equation (1) at the start of this section as the product of the 3 by 2 matrix from the pivot columns and the 2 by 4 matrix from .
8. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 7 — Block shapes: right/left inverses, $\operatorname{rref}(R^T)$, $\operatorname{rref}(R^T R)$ (12 pts)
Suppose is by of rank , with pivot columns first:
(a) What are the shapes of those four blocks?
(b) Find a \emph{right-inverse} with if .
(c) Find a \emph{left-inverse} with if .
(d) What is the reduced row echelon form of (with shapes)?
(e) What is the reduced row echelon form of (with shapes)?
Prove that has the same nullspace as . Later we show that always has the same nullspace as (a valuable fact).
9. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 8 — Row-and-column reduced form (12 pts)
Suppose you allow elementary \emph{column} operations on as well as elementary row operations (which get to ). What is the “row-and-column reduced form” for an by matrix of rank ?
10. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 9 — (Optional) $\operatorname{rank}(AB) \leq \operatorname{rank}(B)$ and rank-destroying multipliers
(§3.3, #17 – Optional) (a) Suppose column of is a combination of previous columns of . Show that column of is the same combination of previous column of . Then cannot have new pivot columns, so .
(b) Find and so that and for .
11. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 10 — Four false statements about $\mathbf{x}_p$ and $\mathbf{x}_n$ (4 pts)
Explain why these are all false:
(a) The complete solution is any linear combination of and .
(b) A system has at most one particular solution.
(c) The solution with all free variables zero is the shortest solution (minimum length ). Find a 2 by 2 counterexample.
(d) If is invertible there is no solution in the nullspace.
12. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 11 — Rank relations for the four solution cases (4 pts)
Write down all known relations between and and if has (a) no solution for some (b) infinitely many solutions for every (c) exactly one solution for some , no solution for other (d) exactly one solution for every .
13. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 12 — Gauss-Jordan to $R$: finding $\mathbf{x}_n$ and $\mathbf{x}_p$ (4 pts)
Apply Gauss-Jordan elimination to and . Reach and :
Solve to find (its free variable is ). Solve to find (its free variable is ).
14. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 13 — Solving $K\mathbf{x} = (10, \ldots, 10)$: a discrete parabola (12 pts)
Suppose is the 9 by 9 second difference matrix (2's on the diagonal,-1's on the diagonal above and also below). Solve the equation . If you graph above the points on the axis, I think the nine points fall on a parabola.
15. MIT 18.06 PSET3 Problem 14 — Same solutions for every $\mathbf{b}$ implies $A = C$ (12 pts)
Suppose and have the same (complete) solutions for every . Is it true that ?