Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Department of Mathematics
MA 102N Linear Algebra
Tutorial-4
1. Determine whether the following are linear transformations?
(a) T : R2 → R2 such that T (x, y) = (x2 , y).
(b) T : R3 → R2 such that T (x, y, z) = (x − y, z + π).
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a b
(c) T : M2 (R) → R2 such that T = (a, d).
c d
2. Give an example of a map which maps linearly dependent subset to linearly dependent
subset but is not a linear transformation.
3. Let T : R2 → R3 be defined by T (x, y) = (x, x + y, y). Find the range and kernel of T.
4. Let T : R4 → R3 be a linear transformation such that T (x, y, z, w) = (x−y, z+w, x+z).
Find the basis of null space N (T ) and range space R(T ) of T .
5. Let T : R4 → R4 be a linear transformation such that T (x, y, z, w) = (2x + 2y + z +
w, 2x + y − z, x − z, 2x + y − z). Find the basis of null space N (T ) and range space
R(T ) of T .
6. Find a linear transformation T : R3 → R3 such that T (e1 ) = e1 − e2 , T (e2 ) = e1 +
e3 , T (e3 ) = e2 − e3 , where e1 , e2 , e3 are the standard bases of R3 .
7. Find a linear transformation T : R3 → R4 which maps (1, 2, 1), (1, 1, 1), (1, 0, 3) to
(1, 0, 1, 1), (2, 1, 1, 0) and (0, 2, 1, 0), respectively.
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8. If T : M2 (R) → M2 (R) is such that T (A) = A+A
2
. Is T a linear transformation? If so,
find the matrix representation of T with respect to the standard basis of M2 (R).
9. Let T : R3 → R3 be a linear transformation. Let
1 −1 2
A = 0 3 1
1 −2 5
be the matrix representation of the linear transformation with respect to the ordered
basis {(0, 1, 1), (1, 1, 0), (1, 0, 1)}. Then, determine the linear transformation T.
10. If
1 −1 2
A = −2 1 −1
1 2 3
is the matrix of a linear transformation T : P2 (x) → P2 (x) with respect to the ordered
basis {(1 − x), x(1 − x), x(1 + x)} and {1, 1 + x, 1 + x2 }. Then find T.
11. For a set of vectors {x1 , x2 }, where x1 = (1, 3)t , x2 = (4, 6)t , are in R2 , find the matrix
of the linear transformation T : R2 → R3 , such that T (x1 ) = (−2 2 − 7)t and
T (x2 ) = (−2 − 4 − 10)t .
1 2
12. Let T be a linear transformation defined by T x = Ax, where A = , x = (x1 , x2 )t .
3 4
Find all points, if any, that are mapped into the point (3, 2).
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a b
13. Let T : M2 (R) → P2 (x) such that T = (a + c) + (a − d)x + (b + c)x2 .
c d
Verify that(T is a linear transformation. Find the matrix representation of T with
)
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
respect to , , , and {1, x, x2 } as basis of M2 (R) and
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
P2 (x) respectively.
14. Let T be a linear transformation defined by
! 1 ! 1 ! 1 !
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
T = 2 ,T
= −2 , T
= −2 , T =
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
3 3 −3
−1 !
2 . Find T 4 5
.
3 8
3
15. Find a linear transformation F : R2 → R2 which maps (1, 2), (0, 1) to (2, 3), (1, 4).
16. Let P2 be a vector space of all the polynomials of degree at most 2 over R. Let a linear
transformation T : P2 → P2 be defined by T (a+bx+cx2 ) = (a+b)+(b−c)x+(a+c)x2 .
Find the null space and range space of T .
17. Let the linear transformation T : R2 → R3 be defined by T (x1 , x2 ) = (x1 , x1 + x2 , x2 ).
Then find the nullity of T .
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