Week 3 discussion

C22. Without using a calculator, nd the eigenvalues of the matrix B.

\[\mathbf{B} = \left[\begin{array} {rrr} 2 & -1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}\right] \]

First, To find the eigen value, we need to construct the characteristic polynomial using below equation.

\[det(B−λI)=0\]

Substituting B and λI

\[det(\left[\begin{array} {rrr} 2 & -1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}\right] - \left[\begin{array} {rrr} λ & 0 \\ 0 & λ \end{array}\right])=0 \]

After subtracting λ

\[det(\left[\begin{array} {rrr} 2-λ & -1 \\ 1 & 1- λ \end{array}\right])=0 \]

After determining the determinent

\[(2-λ)(1-λ) + 1 = 0 \] This becomes

\[(2-λ)(1-λ) + 1 = 0 \]

After reducing, the eqn becomes a quatric eqn.

\[λ^2 -3λ +1 = 0 \]

Not finding the factors, trying to solve with quatric formulae. that is

\[ soln = {-b ±\sqrt({b^2 - 4ac})}/2a \] where b = -3 , a = 1 , c= 1

\[λ = (3 ± \sqrt(5))/2 \]

So eigen values comes as

\[ (5.53/2 , 1.23/2) \]