Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH307/December 2008/Question 04
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Question 04 |
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Find the QR decomposition of the matrix |
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Hint 1 |
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What do you notice when you take the dot product of the two columns of A? How does this simplify the computation? |
Hint 2 |
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Since the two columns of A are already orthogonal, we can simply use the normalized columns of A in Q. |
Hint 3 |
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As a last step, since A = QR and Q has orthonormal columns, we can find R by computing R = QTA. |
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Solution |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. To begin with, we note that the columns of A are already orthogonal, So we can simply put the normalized columns of A into the matrix Q: As a last step, we calculate R = QTA to find (Note that the question asks for the QR decomposition, not a QR decomposition. This is the unique QR decomposition of A such that Q has orthonormal columns and R is square upper triangular with positive diagonal entries.) |