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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2021 Paper 1 18 d i Solution by
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An orthogonal matrix has orthonormal columns. The first column of has squared norm , so . Orthogonality of the two columns then gives , hence . The second column must have squared norm . ThereforeBoth resulting matrices satisfy directly.
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