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ME681A, Mid-Semester Examination, Part-B Open Book/notes Examination

The document provides instructions for a mid-semester exam with the following details: 1) It is an open book exam consisting of 2 parts to be submitted as a single PDF file by email before 2:00pm. 2) Part 1 (10 points) asks to express a given matrix A using vectors u and v in terms of scalars a and b. 3) Part 2 (15 points total) describes a sequence and asks to identify the matrix A governing its growth, find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of A, and use these to calculate a limit b.

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ME681A, Mid-Semester Examination, Part-B Open Book/notes Examination

The document provides instructions for a mid-semester exam with the following details: 1) It is an open book exam consisting of 2 parts to be submitted as a single PDF file by email before 2:00pm. 2) Part 1 (10 points) asks to express a given matrix A using vectors u and v in terms of scalars a and b. 3) Part 2 (15 points total) describes a sequence and asks to identify the matrix A governing its growth, find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of A, and use these to calculate a limit b.

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ME681A, Mid-Semester Examination, part-B

Open book/notes Examination

25 mins for solution + 5 mins for submission


submission after 2-00pm will NOT be accepted

Please e-mail your submission to [email protected] as a single pdf file


e-mail subject line should be: B-midsem-hyour roll noi

1. (10 points) Find a, b, u, v to express the matrix A as A = auuT + bvvT

 
7 2
A=
2 4

Here, a and b are scalars and u and v are vectors

2. (7+8 points) Consider the infinite sequence a0 , a1 , a2 , · · · , where

a0 = a1 = 1, a2 = 2, a3 = 3, a4 = 5, a5 = 8, a6 = 13, a7 = 21, a8 = 34, · · ·

The sequence may be written, in matrix form, as


 
ai
xi+1 = Axi where xi = for i = 0, 1, 2, 3, · · ·
ai+1

Identify the above matrix A, and find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the
matrix A.
Using the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix A, find the value of b,
where b is a real number given by

an+1
b = lim
n→∞ an

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