MCQ Bank
A unit vector is obtained by ------
- A) $u={||v||}/{||v||}
- B) $u=v/{||v||}
- C) None of the above
- D) $u={||v||}/v
The equation $b=A\mathop x\limits^{^}+(b-A\mathop x\limits^{^}$ is a decomposition of $b$ into the sum of a vector in ------------ and a vector orthogonal to $ColA$.
- A) $RowA$
- B) $ColA$
- C)
- D)
If x is orthogonal to both u and v, then x must be _______ to u – v.
- A) equal
- B) orthogonal
- C) orthonormal
- D) parallel
The matrix $A^{T}A$ is invertible iff the columns of $A$ are
- A) Linearly dependent
- B) Linearly Independent
- C)
- D)
For two vectors to be orthonormal, the vectors are also said to be orthogonal. The reverse of the same
- A) Is not true
- B) Is true
- C)
- D)
The two vectors are said to be equivalent if
- A) None of the above
- B) Same length
- C) Same direction
- D) Both (a) and (b)
If we divide a non-zero vector by its length we get a
- A) zero vector
- B) unit vector
- C) normalized vector
- D) none of these
If $u$ and $v$ are non zero vectors in either $R^2$ or $R^3$ then by the law of cosines $||u-vII^2$=---------
- A) $||u-v||^2=||u||^2+||v||^2-2||u||||v||cos \theta$
- B) $||u-v||^2=||u||^2+||v||^2+2||u||||v||cos \theta$
- C)
- D)
Let u, v and w be vectors in ${R^n}$, then
- A) (u+v).w=u.w+v.w-2u.w
- B) None of the above
- C) (u+v).w=u.w-v.w
- D) (u+v).w=u.w+v.w
If there is a vector $u=(1, -1, 2)$ then $||u||$ is------
- A) 2
- B) $\sqrt{6}$
- C) 0
- D) $\sqrt {7}$
An n x n matrix A is _________ if and only if A has n linearly independent vectors.
- A) singular
- B) diagonalizable
- C) symmetric
- D) scalar
The matrix A^T(Transpose of A) x A is invertible if and only if the columns of A are linearly independent.
- A) TRUE
- B) FALSE
- C)
- D)
Suppose that \mathop x\limits^{^} satisfies ${A^T}A\mathop x\limits^{^} = {A^T}b$, then we can say that $b-A\mathop x\limits^{^}$ is ------------ to the rows of ${A^T}$ and hence is orthogonal to the -------------- of $A$.
- A) Orthogonal, rows
- B) Orthogonal, column
- C) Parallel, columns
- D) Parallel, rows
Any orthogonal subsets of vector in an inner product space is linearly independent
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Let W be a subspace of $${R^n}$$ y is any vector in $${R^n}$$ and $$\widehat y$$ the orthogonal projection of y onto W Then $$\widehat y$$ is the closest point in W to y, in the sense that $$\parallel y - \widehat y\parallel \angle \parallel y - v\parallel$$ The vector $$\widehat y$$ is called the best approximation to y by elements of W.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
If two rows are _________, they are linearly independent.
- A) orthonormal
- B) identical
- C) orthogonal
- D) perpendicular
Which of the following set of vectors is NOT an orthogonal set?
- A) (3, 0, 0) ;( 0, 1, 0)
- B) (1, 1, 1) ;( 1, 0,-1)
- C) (2, 3) ;( -6, 4)
- D) (1, 2, 0) ;( 1, 0, 3)
If a square matrix has __________ columns, then it also has orthonormal rows.
- A) orthonormal
- B) orthogonal
- C)
- D)
The zero vector is orthogonal to every vector in $R^n$
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
Let W be a subspace of ${R^n}$ and $\{ {u_1},{u_2},...,{u_p}\}$ is any orthogonal basis of W, then $\mathop y\limits^\^ = {c_1}{u_1} + {c_2}{u_2} + ... + {c_n}{u_n}$ Where
- A) ${c_j} = \frac{{y.{u_j}}}{{{u_j}.{u_j}}}$
- B) ${c_j} = \frac{{y.{u_j}}}{{u_j}}$
- C) None of these
- D) ${c_j} = \frac{{y.{u_j}}}{y}$