Key Notes
Chapter-3
Matrices
• A matrix is an ordered rectangular array of numbers or functions.
• A matrix having m rows and n columns is called a matrix of order m × n.
• [a ij ]m×1 is a column matrix.
• [a ij ]1×n is a row matrix.
• An m × n matrix is a square matrix if m = n.
• A = A = [aij ]m×n is a diagonal matrix if a ij =0, when i ≠ j
• A = a ji is a scalar matrix if a ij = 0 when i ≠ j, a ij = k (k is some constant), when I=j.
n ×n
A = aij · aij = 1, when i = j, aij = 0, when i ≠ j.
• n×n is an identity matrix, if
• A zero matrix has all its elements as zero.
A = aij = bij = B
• if (i) A and B are of same order, (ii) for all possible values of i and j.
kA = k aij = k aij
( )
• m×n m×n
• – A = (–1)A
• A – B = A + (–1) B
• A+B=B+A
• (A + B) + C = A + (B + C), where A, B and C are of same order.
• k(A + B) = kA + kB, where A and B are of same order, k is constant.
• (k + l ) A = kA + lA, where k and l are constant.
n
• If A = [aij ]m×n and B = [bjk ]n×p , then AB = C = [cik ]m×p , where C tl = ∑ a ijb jk
j=i
(i) A(BC) = (AB)C,
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(ii) A(B + C) = AB + AC,
(iii) (A + B)C = AC + BC
If A = aij , then A′ or AT = a ji
• m×n n×m
• (i) (A′)′ = A,
• (ii) (kA)′ = kA′,
• (iii) (A + B)′ = A′ + B′,
• (iv) (AB)′ = B′A′
• A is a symmetric matrix if A′ = A.
• A is a skew symmetric matrix if A′ = –A.
• Any square matrix can be represented as the sum of a symmetric and a skew symmetric
matrix.
• Elementary operations of a matrix are as follows:
(i) R1 ↔ R j or Cl ↔ C j
•
(i) R1 → kR i or Cl ↔ kCl
(i) R1 ↔ R j + kR j or Cl + kC j
• If A and B are two square matrices such that AB = BA = I, then B is the inverse matrix of A and
−1
is denoted by A and A is the inverse of B.
• Inverse of a square matrix, if it exists, is unique.
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