Find an Orthonormal Basis of $\R^3$ Containing a Given Vector
Problem 600
Let $\mathbf{v}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
2/3 \\ 2/3 \\ 1/3
\end{bmatrix}$ be a vector in $\R^3$.
Find an orthonormal basis for $\R^3$ containing the vector $\mathbf{v}_1$.

Let $\mathbf{v}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
2/3 \\ 2/3 \\ 1/3
\end{bmatrix}$ be a vector in $\R^3$.
Find an orthonormal basis for $\R^3$ containing the vector $\mathbf{v}_1$.
Consider the $2\times 2$ real matrix
\[A=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 1\\
1& 3
\end{bmatrix}.\]
(a) Prove that the matrix $A$ is positive definite.
(b) Since $A$ is positive definite by part (a), the formula
\[\langle \mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y}\rangle:=\mathbf{x}^{\trans} A \mathbf{y}\]
for $\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y} \in \R^2$ defines an inner product on $\R^n$.
Consider $\R^2$ as an inner product space with this inner product.
Prove that the unit vectors
\[\mathbf{e}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
1 \\
0
\end{bmatrix} \text{ and } \mathbf{e}_2=\begin{bmatrix}
0 \\
1
\end{bmatrix}\]
are not orthogonal in the inner product space $\R^2$.
(c) Find an orthogonal basis $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2\}$ of $\R^2$ from the basis $\{\mathbf{e}_1, \mathbf{e}_2\}$ using the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process.
(a) Let $S=\{\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2\}$ be the set of the following vectors in $\R^4$.
\[\mathbf{v}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
1 \\
0 \\
1 \\
0
\end{bmatrix} \text{ and } \mathbf{v}_2=\begin{bmatrix}
0 \\
1 \\
1 \\
0
\end{bmatrix}.\]
Find an orthogonal basis of the subspace $\Span(S)$ of $\R^4$.
(b) Let $T:\R^2 \to \R^3$ be a linear transformation such that
\[T(\mathbf{e}_1)=\mathbf{u}_1 \text{ and } T(\mathbf{e}_2)=\mathbf{u}_2,\]
where $\{\mathbf{e}_1, \mathbf{e}_2\}$ is the standard unit vectors of $\R^2$ and
\[\mathbf{u}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
5 \\
1 \\
2
\end{bmatrix} \text{ and } \mathbf{u}_2=\begin{bmatrix}
8 \\
2 \\
6
\end{bmatrix}.\]
Then find
\[T\left(\, \begin{bmatrix}
3 \\
-2
\end{bmatrix} \,\right).\]
Let $A$ be a $4\times 4$ real symmetric matrix. Suppose that $\mathbf{v}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
-1 \\
2 \\
0 \\
-1
\end{bmatrix}$ is an eigenvector corresponding to the eigenvalue $1$ of $A$.
Suppose that the eigenspace for the eigenvalue $2$ is $3$-dimensional.
(a) Find an orthonormal basis for the eigenspace of the eigenvalue $2$ of $A$.
(b) Find $A\mathbf{v}$, where
\[ \mathbf{v}=\begin{bmatrix}
1 \\
0 \\
0 \\
0
\end{bmatrix}.\]
(The University of Tokyo Linear Algebra Exam)