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:
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- 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.