MATH 401 - Dr. Wolfe

Review List For Final Exam (December 17, 2007)

The Exam will cover the material covered in the Hour Exams and also Sections 6.1-6.6, 5.1-5.3, 5.8, 7.1, 7.4.

Chapter 6; Orthogonality and Least Squares

Definitions:

Inner Product, Length, Orthogonality
Orthogonal Complement
Orthogonal Set, Orthonormal Set
Orthogonal Projection
Orthogonal Matrix
Gram-Schmidt Processs
QR Factorization
Least-Squares Solution of Ax=b
Least-Squares Data Fitting
Theorems:
Theorem 5
Theorem 8 (The Orthogonal Decomposition Theorem)
Theorem 9 (The Best Approximation Theorem)
Theorem 12 (The QR Factorization)
Theorems 13 & 14
Theorem 15
Problems:
6.2, 7, 11; 6.3, 1,3; 6.4, 9; 6.5, 1,5,15; 6.6, 3,9.

Sections 5.1-5.3, 5.8; Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors

Definitions:

Eigenvalue, Eigenvector
Characteristic Polynomial, Characteristic Equation
Similarity of Matrices
Diagonalizable Matrix
Power Method, Inverse Power Method
Theorems:
Theorem 4
Theorem 5 (The Diagonalization Theorem)
Problems:
5.2,1; 5.3, 1,5; 5.8 , 1.

Sections 7.1, 7.4; The Singular Value Decomposition

Definitions:

Symmetric Matrix
Spectral Decomposition
Singular Values
Theorems:
Theorem 3 (The Spctral Theorem for Symmetric Matrices)
Theorem 10 (The Singular Value Decomposition)
Problems:
7.1 , 13; 7.4 , 15.
Also, know how to solve Least-Squares problems using the SVD.