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Past exam of the year 2 of the earth sciences (geology) course of the University of Oxford 2024 Paper 3 6 b Solution by
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Since is an invertible matrix, is equivalent to . The last nontrivial row gives ; the second gives ; and the first gives , so . A basis of the null space is thereforeIts single basis vector has Euclidean norm , so the unit null space basis vector is .
The pivot elements of lie in columns . Take these columns from the original matrix to obtain a basis of its column space:The fourth column is minus the sum of these three columns, and the leading three-by-three matrix minor has nonzero determinant , confirming linear independence.
Elementary row operations preserve the row space. Thus the nonzero rows of give a basis of the row space of :These basis vectors need not have unit Euclidean norm or be orthogonal. Their Euclidean norms are , respectively; the three column basis vectors have Euclidean norms .
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