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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2016 Paper 1 14 b i Solution by
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The third coordinate is decoupled, giving the unit eigenvector with eigenvalue . In the first two coordinates, the symmetric direction has eigenvalue , and the antisymmetric direction has eigenvalue . Their normalized forms areThey are an orthonormal basis of ; independent sign reversals are equally valid choices.
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