Matrices Exercise (with Solution)

1. Basics of Matrices


2. Matrix Operations 


3. Determinants Exercise 

  • Properties of Determinants Exercise
  • Cofactor Expansion Exercise
  • Determinant of a Triangular Matrix Exercise
  • Applications of Determinants (Area, Volume, etc.) Exercise

4. Inverse and Rank

  • Inverse of a Matrix (using Adjoint and Determinant)
  • Properties of Inverse Matrices
  • Rank of a Matrix
  • Echelon Forms (Row and Reduced Row Echelon Form)
  • Nullity and Column Space

5. Systems of Linear Equations

  • Representation as a Matrix Equation
  • Gauss Elimination Method
  • Gauss-Jordan Method
  • Cramer’s Rule
  • Matrix Methods for Solutions

6. Special Matrix Forms

  • Diagonalization
  • Triangular Matrices (Upper and Lower)
  • Block Matrices
  • Sparse Matrices
  • Vandermonde Matrix
  • Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices

7. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

  • Definition and Computation
  • Properties of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
  • Spectral Theorem
  • Diagonalization using Eigenvalues
  • Applications in Physics and Engineering

8. Advanced Matrix Topics

  • Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
  • QR Decomposition
  • LU Decomposition
  • Cholesky Decomposition
  • Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse

9. Matrix Functions

  • Exponential of a Matrix
  • Logarithm of a Matrix
  • Matrix Power
  • Matrix Polynomial

10. Applications of Matrices

  • Graph Theory (Adjacency and Incidence Matrices)
  • Markov Chains and Transition Matrices
  • Image and Signal Processing (Fourier Transforms)
  • Linear Transformations in Geometry
  • Data Science and Machine Learning (PCA, Regression)

11. Specialized Topics

  • Tensor Algebra and Higher-Dimensional Arrays
  • Non-Negative Matrices and Perron-Frobenius Theorem
  • Matrix Factorization Techniques (e.g., NMF, SVD)
  • Matrix Calculus
  • Numerical Stability and Matrix Computation
  • Applications in Cryptography (Hill Cipher)