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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/5/i/solution

Multiplication by rotates the components by counterclockwise when viewed from positive toward the origin, leaving unchanged. It is a proper rotation about the axis, with determinant . Multiplication by sends to : it is a reflection in the plane, with determinant . Neither operation changes a vector's Euclidean norm.

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