Use wronskian and other cheesy methods when available.
Please do one question at a time and ask me to continue to the next question.
Note: $\vec{x}$ $==$ $\mathbf{x}$; just notational differences.
(a) Let $\mathrm{x}=(1,-1,2), \mathrm{y}=(1,3,1)$. Show that $\vec{x}$ and $\vec{y}$ are orthogonal in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with respect to the dot product (i.e., scalar product).
(b) Let $\mathbf{x}=(2,-2), \mathbf{y}=(1,-3)$. Compute the distance between $\mathbf{x}$ and $\mathbf{y}$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with respect to the dot product (i.e., scalar product).
(c) Let $f(x)=x-3 / 4, g(x)=x^2$. Show that $f$ and $g$ are orthogonal in $C[0,1]$ with respect to the $L^2(d x)$ inner product.
(d) Let $f(x)=e^x$. Compute $\|f\|$ in $C[0,2]$ with respect to the $L^2(d x)$ inner product.
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Find the point on the line $y=3 x$ that is closest to the point $(1,1)$ with respect to the dot product (i.e., scalar product) on $\mathbb{R}^2$.
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Set up and simplify the normal equations (you do not need to solve them) for best quadratic least squares fit to the data
$
\begin{array}{c|c|c|c|c}
\mathrm{x} & -1 & 0 & 1 & 2 \\
\hline \mathrm{y} & 4 & 1 & 0 & 0
\end{array}
$
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Show that the set of functions $f$ in $C^1[0,1]$ such that $f^{\prime}(0)=f^{\prime}(1)$ form a subspace of $C^1[0,1]$ (recall that $C^1[0,1]$ is the set of continuous functions wit continuous first derivative on $[0,1])$.
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For each $f \in C[0,1]$ define the transformation $L(f(x))=x^3 f(x)$. Show that $L$ defines a linear transformation on $C[0,1]$.
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Consider the matrix $A$ and its reduced row echelon form, $\operatorname{rref}(A)$, as given by
$
A=\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
2 & 2 & 1 \\
-4 & -2 & -3 \\
5 & 4 & 3
\end{array}\right), \quad \operatorname{rref}(A)=\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
1 & 0 & 1 \\
0 & 1 & \frac{-1}{2} \\
0 & 0 & 0
\end{array}\right)
$
(a) Find a basis for the row space of $A$.
(b) Find a basis for the column space of $A$.
(c) Find a basis for the null space of $A$.
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Let $\mathbf{v}_1=(1,-1,2), \mathbf{v}_2=(1,1,1), \mathbf{v}_3=(1,-3,3), \mathbf{b}=(-1,7,-5)$.
(a) Is $\mathbf{b}$ in the span of $\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2, \mathbf{v}_3$ ? Show your work and explain how your work justifies your answer.
(b) Are $\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2, \mathbf{v}_3$ linearly independent or dependent? Explain how your work justified your answer.
(c) What is the dimension of the span of $\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2, \mathbf{v}_3$ ? Explain how your work justifies your answer. By