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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 11 d Solution by
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Resolve the input along the three perpendicular eigendirections. The linear map removes the component along , stretches the component along by , and reverses and stretches the component along by . Every output lies in the plane perpendicular to . A nonzero input in the kernel of a linear map is sent to zero; other nonzero inputs remain in that output plane. Equivalently, take the orthogonal projection onto this plane, then scale by the two signed eigenvalues along its perpendicular eigendirections.
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