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Chapter 10
Creating and manipulating matrices
This chapter shows a number of examples aimed at creating matrices in the
calculator and demonstrating manipulation of matrix elements.
Definitions
A matrix is simply a rectangular array of objects (e.g., numbers, algebraics)
having a number of rows and columns. A matrix A having n rows and m
columns will have, therefore, n×m elements. A generic element of the matrix
is represented by the indexed variable a
ij
, corresponding to row i and column
j. With this notation we can write matrix A as A = [a
ij
]
n
×
m
. The full matrix is
shown next:
.][
21
22221
11211
==
×
nmnn
m
m
mnij
aaa
aaa
aaa
a
L
OMM
L
L
A
A matrix is square if m = n. The transpose
of a matrix is constructed by
swapping rows for columns and vice versa. Thus, the transpose of matrix A, is
A
T
= [(a
T
)
ij
]
m
×
n
= [a
ji
]
m
×
n
. The main diagonal of a square matrix is the collection
of elements a
ii
. An identity matrix, I
n
×
n
, is a square matrix whose main
diagonal elements are all equal to 1, and all off-diagonal elements are zero.
For example, a 3×3 identity matrix is written as
=
100
010
001
I
An identity matrix can be written as I
n
×
n
= [δ
ij
], where δ
ij
is a function known
as Kronecker’s delta
, and defined as
≠
=
=
jiif
jiif
ij
,0
,1
δ
.
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