Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2007 / ia / Paper 1 / 6C / ii / Solution

In suffix notation, $x_i^{\prime }=a{x}_i+b{ϵ}_{ikj}{n}_k{x}_j$, so the matrix entries areHere $\delta$ is the Kronecker delta and $ϵ$ the Levi-Civita symbol. The diagonal determines $a=2$. Comparing the off-diagonal entries withgives $b\mathbf{n}=(1,2,2)$. As $\mathbf{n}$ is a unit vector and $b>0$, $b=3$ and $\mathbf{n}=(1,2,2)/3$. ThusIn this example the transverse scaling is $\sqrt{13}$ and the axial scaling is two; the rotation angle is $\arctan (3/2)$.