Math 247F - Homework 1, Due
on Tuesday, September 19
1. Section 5.1: #3
2. Section 6.1: # 1, 3, 4b, 8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 27
3. Section 6.2: #1, 2(b,d,,g,i)
Extra credit problem (to be
written up and turned in separately
from the rest of the homework):
Show that if A is a real nxn matrix then its complex eigenvalues and
eigenvectors come in conjugate pairs. That is if c is an
eigenvalue then so is c
and similarly if v is an eigenvector then so is v.